Tue Feb 9,
2016 2:47pm EST
The EU
executive will push Greece
and Italy on Wednesday to do
more to control migrants arriving across the Mediterranean, as time runs out for
Athens to fix frontier chaos or be suspended
from Europe 's free travel zone.
EU leaders
will meet next week under growing pressure to get the migration crisis under
control before warmer spring weather encourages a surge of new arrivals.
More than a
million people reached Europe last year,
putting pressure on security and social systems in some EU states and exposing
deep rifts within the 28-nation bloc.