Austria is set to decide Tuesday
to pull out of the EU's migrant relocation scheme, sources said
Monday after Defence Minister Hanz Doskozil's proposal was
welcomed by Interior Minister Wolfgag Sobotka. Doskozil said
Vienna had "more than respected" its European obligations.
Vienna has been threatening to pull out of the scheme for some
time citing "uncontrolled" migration into Italy. Doskozil said
Thursday Austria would not take in refugees from Italy. "As long
as there is illegal and uncontrolled immigration, and Austria is
strongly hit, there can be no further legal away for asylum
seekers," he told the APA news agency. There were some 36,000
asylum applications in Austria in 2016 compared to Italy's
120,000 or so, making Austria doubly affected compared to Italy
in terms of population size.
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