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European Union interior ministers are discussing tightening the external borders of the passport-free Schengen area in response to the Paris attacks, the BBC reported.

France wants EU citizens to be subject to the same stringent border checks as non-EU travellers, and wants easier sharing of airline passenger data.

It has emerged the alleged Belgian leader of last week's attacks travelled undetected from Syria to France.
Meanwhile, Germany's intelligence chief has warned of a "terrorist world war".

Hans-Georg Maassen, head of the domestic intelligence agency, told the BBC that the so-called Islamic State (IS) had made Europe its enemy and European countries had to "assume something like Paris can happen any time".

The near-simultaneous attacks by suicide bombers and gunmen on bars and restaurants, a concert hall and sports stadium last Friday killed 129 people and left hundreds of people wounded. IS said it was behind the attacks.

France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, speaking on Thursday, said it was "urgent that Europe wakes up, organises itself and defends itself against the terrorist threat".

He said France received no warning from other European countries that Abdelhamid Abaaoud - a well-known face of IS and on international "most wanted" lists - had arrived on the continent.

France said it received intelligence from a non-European country some three days after the attacks that Abaaoud had passed through Greece on his return from Syria.

One of the attackers who blew himself up outside the Stade de France, has also been traced by his fingerprints to Greece where he was registered as a migrant.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said some of those involved in the attacks had taken advantage of the migration crisis in Europe - which has seen thousands of asylum seekers arrive on the continent - to "slip into" France unnoticed.

On Thursday, French prosecutors confirmed that Abaaoud was among those killed in a police raid the previous day.