Austria's threat to build a migrant
fence at the Brenner Pass "is tantamount to a pure exercise of
propaganda, as the German foreign minister also said," Premier
Matteo Renzi said Wednesday. "It is a dangerous operation
because if plays with fear and when you play with fear you risk
strengthening those who are good at evoking the ghosts of the
past". Renzi said the Brenner Pass "is a symbol of friendship
and dialogue and its closure is little more than a provocation
that is part of the Austrian election campaign". The threat of
building the border fence came amid a presidential election
campaign that daw a rightwing populist candidate, Norbert Hofer
of the Freedom Party, win the first round.
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