Berlin, December 26 (RHC)-- The German foreign minister has called on European countries to impose stricter border controls amid an influx of refugees from violence-torn states into the continent. “It is important that we have more control again over who is entering and leaving Europe,” Frank-Walter Steinmeier was quoted as saying on Saturday in an interview with newspapers in the Funke Medien Group.

Steinmeier warned against lumping refugees in the same category as suspected terrorists, many of whom, he admitted, were home-grown and came from Europe. He said EU leaders had agreed to offer incentives to Turkey to help stem the flow of refugees and block them from moving towards the European continent.