{"id":16577,"date":"2016-01-17T09:33:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T14:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16577"},"modified":"2016-01-17T09:33:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T14:33:47","slug":"austria-suspends-schengen-agreement-steps-up-border-control-tells-eu-to-sort-out-migrant-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16577","title":{"rendered":"Austria suspends Schengen agreement, steps up border control, tells EU to sort out migrant crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Austria suspends Schengen agreement, steps up border control, tells EU to sort out migrant crisis<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Migrants walk during snowfall before passing Austrian-German border in Wegscheid in Austria, near Passau \u00a9 Michael Dalder \/ Reuters<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Vienna is radically changing its policy towards migrants and refugees, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann told local media. Faymann said that with the new measures introduced at Austria\u2019s borders, the existence of \u201cthe whole EU is in question.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cAll refugees must be controlled, economic migrants must be sent to the countries of their origin,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Faymann said in an interview with Austria\u2019s Oesterreich newspaper, to be published on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The government is implementing a strict monitoring system for asylum seekers, the chancellor said, adding that, just like in neighboring Germany, its border controls are being tightened, and repatriations of refugees are carried out.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who arrives at our border is subject to control,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Faymann said. A valid identity card will now have to be provided to authorities, and those who do not have a right to asylum or have been already rejected by Germany will be denied entry, as will those who don\u2019t intend to apply for refugee status in Austria.<\/p>\n

Consequently, the Schengen agreement on open borders is \u201ctemporarily cancelled\u201d in Austria, the chancellor said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the EU does not manage to secure the external borders, Schengen as a whole is put into question…Then each country must control its national borders,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Faymann told the newspaper, adding that if the bloc\u2019s external borders are not secured in the near future,\u00a0\u201cthe whole EU [will be] in question.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSo far, the Schengen agreement does make provision for what they call exceptional measures. So this doesn\u2019t mean that de jure there is yet a complete collapse of the Schengen. What it does mean is that we are seeing the beginning of a de facto collapse,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0William Mallinson, a writer and former British diplomat told RT.\u00a0\u201cIf this continues, Schengen will actually die,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n

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Austria suspends Schengen agreement, steps up border control, tells EU to sort out migrant crisis Migrants walk during snowfall before passing Austrian-German border in Wegscheid in Austria, near Passau \u00a9 Michael Dalder \/ Reuters Vienna is radically changing its policy towards migrants and refugees, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann told local media. Faymann said that with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[42,9009,279,281,284,8882,8114,9058],"class_list":["post-16577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-austria","tag-border-controls","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-migrant-crisis","tag-rt-news","tag-schengen-agreement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16578,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16577\/revisions\/16578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}