C. European countries push for back-up EU border plans over migrants

The European Union should be ready with alternative plans to reinforce its borders until Turkey and Greece do more to reduce the number of refugees streaming into the bloc, the Czech and Slovak prime ministers said on Tuesday. Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has called a meeting of the Visegrad group of central European countries for Feb. 15, three days before an EU summit that will tackle the migration crisis.