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Migrants: Austria wants to extend border controls

Minister Sobotka announced

26 April, 15:47
(ANSA) - BERLIN - Austria wants to extend border controls, due to expire in mid-May, Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka announced. ''As long as the external borders cannot be adequately protected, we will continue to take national measures'' Sobotka told told the German newspaper die Welt.

''For the purposes of public order and internal security, I simply need to know who comes into our country'', he added.

Sobotka said he is confident that Brussels will give green light to an extension of controls at Schengen's internal borders. According to die Welt, the Commission will decide next week to extend them beyond May. (ANSA).

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