Political tensions over influx of migrants in Europe boil over as leaders from central and eastern states declare death of multicultural Europe and call for borders to be sealed, said The Telegraph.

"The idea of multicultural Europe has failed," proclaimed Robert Fico, the prime minister of Slovakia, calling for an extraordinary summit of EU leaders next week to discuss fresh reports of migrant-led sex attacks emerging from Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria and Finland.

Bohuslav Sobotka, his Czech counterpart, immediately echoed the call.

"The migrants cannot be integrated, it's simply impossible," Fico added, citing a "clear link" between the sex attacks and the influx of refugees that has swept through Europe from the failed states of Syria and North Africa.

As Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, promised to step up deportation of immigrants who broke the law, Belgium’s immigration minister tried to calm popular fears over the sex attacks by ordering new migrants to face mandatory “respect for women” courses.

But Hungary’s hardline conservative leader, Viktor Orban, dismissed such measures, calling for a complete halt to migration into Europe and the establishment of a new “European defence line” on Greece's northern borders with Macedonia and Bulgaria.

Europe’s founding freedoms were now under threat, he said.

"We are increasingly losing the possibility of free movement," Orban told state radio, warning that the Schengen system of visa-free travel that underpins Europe’s single market would collapse if borders were not controlled.

Source: MENA