EU head signals not to reject controversial border guard proposal

European leaders may not reject a controversial proposal that allow Brussels to intervene its external border control efforts even without members states' approval, European Council President Donald Tusk hinted on Thursday.

"There is no good alternative to border protection. And this is why I welcome with great satisfaction the European Commission's proposal of strengthening our external borders," Tusk told reporters when he arrived at an ongoing summit attended by leaders of the European Union (EU) member states.

The European Commission, the EU executive, two days earlier unveiled a proposal to establish a new border and coast guard body that will enable Brussels quickly response to its external border emergency as the massive migrant influx was putting its passport-free Schengen policy under risk.

The proposal also ask member states to cede sovereign rights as, under urgent situation, it may grant the new agency to deploy staffs to the grounds to protect the bloc's borders without members states' consent.

"We have to analyse the most controversial idea of the European Border Guard entering the territory of sovereign states," Tusk said. "But Europe cannot remain vulnerable when Schengen states are not able to effectively protect their borders."

"If we reject the Commission's proposal, we will have to find another, but I'm afraid, an equally painful solution," Tusk said.

Leaders gathered here for a scheduled two-day summit which will be dominated by the migrant crisis and Britain's referendum talks. Endit