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Austria: vice chancellor, housing refugees in barracks

Strache, my comment taken out of the context

05 January, 16:19
(ANSA) - TRIESTE - Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache downplayed comments in an interview with public broadcaster ORF in which he appeared to raise the idea of housing asylum-seekers in military barracks.

Strache, the Freedom Party leader, said Friday his comments had been taken out of context and "no mass accommodation is planned" for asylum-seekers in military facilities.

Austria will hold the EU's rotating presidency in the second half of this year, when the bloc should be finalizing the terms of Britain's departure. (ANSA).

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