18/01/2016 (Agence Europe) - Schäuble proposes European tax on petrol to help meet migration costs. “If the funds in the national budgets and the European budget are not sufficient, then let us agree for instance on collecting a levy on every litre of petrol at a specific amount”, said German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble in an interview published in the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung on Saturday 16 January. The previous day, Italy had called for the EU budget to meet the entire cost of the EU-Turkey migration action plan designed to stem the flow of refugees to the European Union (see EUROPE 11469). “We have to secure Schengen's external borders now. The solution of these problems must not fail because of a lack of funds”, Schäuble added. (MB)