Britain demands EU action to stop 'huge influx' of Balkans asylum seekers Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria and the Netherlands will use a meeting of European interior ministers today to demand that the EU stop the tide. Their nationals can move in the Schengen zone freely. This rush of asylum demands, often groundless, is threatening our system. Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia were granted visa-free status by the EU in 2009 and 2010 allowing their citizens to travel without papers in the passport-free Schengen zone. The concession was introduced as a step towards eventual EU membership. Mr Valls has complained that domestic laws forced France and Germany to house and feed the asylum seekers ﾓeven though it's almost sure that their demand will be rejected. "This problem should be met with a European response," he said. Hans-Peter Friedrich, the German interior minister said that the EU "could offer Serbia and Macedonia adequate aid" but if the trend continued then visas would be re-introduced. That's our message to Serbia and Macedonia. We are asking these two countries to resolve the problem," he said. The huge inflow of Serbian and Macedonian citizens must be stopped immediately.