EU BORDER CHAOS: Norway blasts Brussels as it takes a stand on uncontrolled immigration
NORWEGIAN politicians are taking a stand over migration as they demand the right to keep control of the country's borders - against controversial Brussels policy.
Norway has had a serious migrant issue for more than 10 years
The country, which is not in the EU but is in the free movement Schengen Zone, is increasingly concerned with the influx of migrants due to national security.
Justice and Public Security minister Anders Anundsen is lobbying the European Commission to extend the country's border control scheme which runs out on November 12.
He said: "The reason is the internal security, the number of unregistered persons within the Schengen and the need to maintain a satisfactory control over the Schengen's external borders."
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The reason is the internal security
Last year, Norway took in 32,000 asylum-seekers, the most it has ever accepted.
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Austria are currently running Brussels' approved border controls systems but chancellor Angela Merkel is increasingly uneasy about the measures which contradict the Shengen agreement.
Norway’s immigration minister Sylvi Listhaug also spelled out the government's stance.
Norway to ask EU for extension on internal border control
She said: ”We have a huge integration task ahead of us and I believe it is important with some help in our immediate surroundings.
"If border controls are removed, Europe is in for a new influx."
The country's stance is contrary to Mrs Merkel's view after she gave an interview last week saying countries have to do more.
She told Bild: "Europe as a whole has, for a long time, refused to recognise the drama of the refugee crisis.
Norway’s immigration minister Sylvi Listhaug
"At no point was there any sufficient readiness in Europe to really agree on a fair distribution of the refugees.
"We have now made progress, fortunately, due to the EU-Turkey Agreement and the increased support for the EU border protection agency Frontex.
"All of us have understood that we have to better protect the EU’s external borders and to fight the causes of flight."
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Earlier this year a Norway-based Iraqi Kurdish terror recruitment ring that sent people to fight for ISIS in Iraq and Syria was smashed.
A total of 13 arrests made including in Italy and Britain.
In August an Oslo court jailed two jihadists of Pakistani and Chechen origin for joining ISIS.
The pair were handed down sentences of six and seven and a half years.
Adam Idrisovich Magomadov,and Hasan Ahmed, a 46-year-old were convicted of "terror conspiracy”.