Brussels proposes extending emergency border checks inside EU for three months

The European Union's executive recommended on Wednesday extending emergency border controls inside what would normally be the bloc's zone of free travel that collapsed amid an influx of refugees and migrants, and feuds over how to handle them. Under the proposal, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Denmark and Norway - not a member of the EU but part of the free-travel Schengen zone - could extend their current border controls for another three months from their current expiry in mid-February. "We current