Seeing what was happening in France and Italy, Denmark also closed its internal borders - an act which the EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has declared may be a violation of European law.
Only yesterday a senior official at the European Central Bank, Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Paramo, declared that any restructuring would have "extreme adverse consequences".
Orlando Jose Montanez Olivares and Victor Camacaro Mata were declared personae non gratae and ordered to leave the country in response to the South American nation's decision to kick out two U.S. officials last week, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters.