Austria and West Balkan countries agreed to put an eventual complete stop to the flow of refugees entering Europe. During the West Balkan Conference on Migration, four EU-members Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and Bulgaria as well as Albania, Bosnia Kosovo, Serbia, FYROM decided to implement new measures and also call the Interpol and the Europol to assist them in taking the issue under control.
“It is not possible to process unlimited numbers of migrants and applicants for asylum,” said a declaration issued by a meeting of EU members Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and Bulgaria, as well as Albania Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. It cited “limited resources and reception capacities, potential consequences for internal security and social cohesion as well as challenges with regard to integration.”
At the same time, the document focused mostly on reducing the inflow of people — some fleeing war and persecution, others economic hardship — rather than totally cutting off the migrant flow into Austria, and from there to the rest of Western Europe.
Some points of the Declaration:
On April 1, a “joint operational center in the fight against smuggling” will be set up in Vienna – with the involvement of Interpol and Europol.
Only vulnerable people will be allowed to enter , Austria’s interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner adding that it will be up to each country to decide who belongs to this category. For example, people claiming to come form Afghanistan but do not speak local dialects will not be allowed to cross the borders.
All people with forged document swill not be allowed.
Austria will send 20 policemen to FYROM’s border [which borders” to Greece?]
Participants agreed to offer mutual support.
The measures are to be discussed at the EU interior ministers summit on Thursday.
According to Austrian officials, the goal was a European solution but in the meantime regional and national measures.
sources: Der Standard, DailyMail
Regarding Schengen Austrian cops have to guarantee free movement out of Greece and have to protect Greece the other way round, so the masses sent back can’t leave Fyrom but ut they can make true friends there and rob refugees together with the Fyrom-cops and their Mafia buddies, in European spirit democratically doing since March 2015
Serbia together with Kosova, haha … Serbia already said they could host tens of thousands.
Albania said that too.
Great luck the Serbian hostages in Libya were not victims of Turkish air-strikes.
Serbia said it can host 6000 people max and only temporarily. Elections are coming up in Serbia. Allowing more would amount to political suicide.