DHAKA: European countries cannot accept any more refugees, the French prime minister has been quoted as saying.

Quoting Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the BBC reported Manuel Valls said stricter control of the EU’s external borders would determine the bloc’s fate.

Europe's border controls have come under renewed scrutiny since the attacks in Paris on November 13.

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has said that the Schengen agreement is “partly comatose”.

Several EU countries have imposed border controls in recent week - despite the Schengen system of passport-free movement - amid the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants, many of whom are fleeing Syria and Iraq.

Some countries imposed new restrictions after a forged Syrian passport was found next to the body of one of the perpetrators involved in the Islamic State attacks on the French capital.

BDST: 2037 HRS, NOV 25, 2015
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