[Hungary's State Secretary of the Ministry of Interior Kontrat, Austria's Interior Minister Sobotka, Austria's Defence Minister Doskozil and Czech Republic's Deputy Defence Minister Landovsky address a news conference in Vienna]More than a dozen countries in central and southeastern Europe agreed on Wednesday to draw up plans by late April for closer military and civilian cooperation to protect their borders in case a migrant deal the EU has struck with Turkey collapses. The deal, clinched nearly a year ago, has sharply cut the number of migrants entering the European Union from Turkey via Greece and the Balkans, but Ankara has repeatedly threatened to halt cooperation as its relations with the EU have worsened.
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