EU ministers agreed Friday to get tough on border security after the devastating Paris attacks.

EU ministers agreed Friday to get tough on border security after the devastating Paris attacks.

Adding to fears about the global terrorist threat, gunmen seized 170 people in a hotel used by foreigners in the capital of Mali, with at least three hostages killed.

EU ministers agreed at emergency talks in Brussels to tighten checks on all travelers at the borders of the passport-free Schengen zone.

The European Commission also called for the establishment of an EU-wide intelligence agency in the wake of the Paris massacre that left 129 people dead last Friday.

"We hope that Europe, which has wasted too much time on a number of urgent issues, today takes the decisions that we must take," French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said as he arrived for the talks.