Croatia is ready to send an additional police ship with eight crew members, along with the one which is already on patrol in the Aegean Sea, as well as border police staff to the Greek border, Croatian Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic said on Wednesday in Brussels.

Minister Bozinovic made the statement before the extraordinary meeting of EU member states’ home affairs ministers, which was convened because of the crisis at the Greek-Turkish border caused by Turkey’s decision to open the borders to migrants.

Before the ministerial meeting, the European Commission presented an action plan of measures the Union and its member states should implement in order to help Greece.

In the action plan, the Commission calls on member states to allocate funds necessary for launching two operations of fast border intervention by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) at the land and sea border between Greece and Turkey.

Minister Bozinovic said that cooperation with Western Balkan countries would also be talked about at the meeting.

“Those are the countries which could be affected if the crisis escalates. We must not forget them, they are on the route, and if we help them, we are actually helping ourselves as well,” Bozinovic said.