Blow to Schengen as Austria Refuses to Re-Open German Border

SputnikNews.com
06.01.2017

Austria remains in favor of border controls and an upper limit on refugees, Interior Minister Wolfgang Subotka told German newspaper Die Welt.

Having imposed controls at its border with Germany in September 2015 at the height of Europe’s migrant crisis, Austria wants to continue with them indefinitely, Interior Minister Wolfgang Subotka told German newspaper Die Welt on Friday.

>”As long as the EU is not able to protect its external borders, we will take national measures in Austria. It is essential to know who is coming to our country, for reasons of domestic security. I am under no circumstances willing to take risks here,” Subotka said.

In October the EU Commission had authorized an extension of border controls between Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden and Norway until mid-February 2017.

Austria says that a return to Schengen is only possible if the bloc is able to come to an EU-wide solution on migration and border protection.

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