German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Saturday for better protection at the extrenal borders of European Union so as to maintain the Schengen zone.

“We need to protect our external borders because we want to keep Schengen,” Mrs. Merkel said in her weekly podcast adding that if EU fails to protect its external borders, the free movement of people would be jeopardized.

She stressed that the protection of external borders is not turning out very well where the EU has sea borders, referring indirectly to Greece, as Reuter highlights.

Mrs. Merkel will travel to Turkey on Monday to meet with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu so as to find a joint solution to stop people trafficking.