The interior minister of a German state that shares a border with Poland said he believes that the external borders of the European Union should be more strongly secured following a compromise reached on asylum by the EU during the week. "If the EU's external borders remain so porous and we have to take in additional people from the border procedures, we will have a deterioration," Michael Stübgen of the state of Brandenburg that surrounds Berlin told dpa. "This must go hand in hand with increas