The Latest: EU allows 5 nations to extend border checks

Migrants' tents are set up in a new makeshift camp along the storm-hit cliffs near the port of Dieppe, northern France, Wednesday, June 1, 2016. A group of around 150 Albanian migrants set up camp near the English channel hoping to cross to the UK. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler) (The Associated Press)

A member of the international medical charity, left, known by its French acronym MSF in a new makeshift camp along the storm-hit cliffs near the port of Dieppe, northern France, Wednesday, June 1, 2016. A group of around 150 Albanian migrants set up camp near the English channel hoping to cross to the UK. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler) (The Associated Press)

BERLIN – The Latest on Europe's migration crisis (all times local):

12:30 p.m.

Denmark's immigration minister says the European Union's executive arm is allowing five countries to keep border controls in place for six more months to help manage the flow of migrants.

Inger Stoejberg says the European Commission has permitted Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria and France to keep checks at borders "for another six months."

Stoejberg said Wednesday that "we have to take care of our own borders until a joint solution within the EU has been found."

The five countries requested the extension because Greece still isn't able to properly manage its border with Turkey, which prompted the five to reintroduce ID checks.

More than 1 million people arrived in Europe last year seeking sanctuary or jobs. Many entered Greece from Turkey but made their way north.

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11:55 a.m.

The German government says the European Union's anti-migrant smuggling operation in the Mediterranean sea has intercepted and destroyed 103 boats in its first year of operation.

In a reply to parliament, the Foreign Ministry said ships that make up the Operation Sophia mission have seized 85 rubber boats and 18 wooden boats, the dpa news agency reported Wednesday. A total of 69 smugglers have also been charged since the operation started in May 2015.

Though the fleet's official mission is to confront smugglers and deter illegal immigration to Europe, in practice the effort has become one of the 28-nation bloc's biggest rescue missions in history, saving more than 10,000 migrants in the past year.