Border protection in the Focus – Vienna and Berlin: together against illegal migration

In a joint press attack, Karner praised initiatives of his acting towards the migration area since 6 May and described a “robust EU -External border protection” as the purpose of both countries.

Karner praises German border controls
It is good that Germany clearly sends the signal to arrange the boundaries more intensively, said Karner. “This has the effect on Austria that we also have considerably fewer illegal attacks on the one hand on this border (to Germany, note), but especially on the Burgenland-Hungarian border,” the minister said. At that time he also had no evidence that there were illegal rejections on the German border.

The question of two journalists, which was specific to people who were rejected from Germany to Austria, left Karner unanswered.

Berlin wants to change asylum policy in the EU
In turn, increasing the attacks on the border with more police services serves the common goal of putting migration policy at their feet of the head in Europe, Dobrindt also emphasized. “We see that we have equal interests in Europe when it comes to strengthening safety and taking measures against illegal migration,” he said.

Close Partnership
It was “very, very important” for him to come to Vienna after a visit to Paris and to be able to have a conversation in close collaboration between Germany and Austria, the German Minister of the Interior said and referred to an intensive exchange about a common approach in Brussels.

In particular, he called a rapid implementation of the common European shelter system, which must be sharpened and hardened. He also discussed with Karner returns to Afghanistan and Syria, he said.

The CSU politician has also announced that it will abolish an “explicit naturalization” introduced by the previous German government and, as recently, wants to suspend the family management for refugees in Austria.