EURO 2008 INFO

Euro 2008 organisers have asked countries to try to impose travel bans on hooligans to stop troublemakers reaching June's tournament in Austria and Switzerland, Austria's interior minister said on Monday.

Austria, a member of the Schengen area where people travel without showing passports, will carry out only a limited monitoring of its borders during the event.

"We aim to survey the Schengen border temporarily at selected points but it makes no sense for us to survey the whole border or our other border crossings 24 hours a day," Austrian Interior Minister Guenther Platter said.

"There is just not going to be complete control during the whole tournament," he told a news conference.

Switzerland is not yet in the borderless Schengen area but is scheduled to join in October or November.

Some two million foreign fans are expected to descend on joint hosts Austria and Switzerland for Euro 2008, which will run from June 7 to 29. UEFA is expecting around six million fans in total.

POTENTIAL TROUBLEMAKERS

Platter said officials had been focusing on measures that countries could take to prevent hooligans travelling, such as travel bans and research to pinpoint potential troublemakers.