Austria temporarily canceled the Schengen Agreement – RBC

The inscription “to Austria for two minutes,” written on the pavement near the Hungarian-Austrian border

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Austria temporarily suspend the Schengen Agreement and introduces total control at the border. About this in an interview with the Oesterreich said Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, the full text of which will be published on Sunday.

«Everyone who comes to us will be heavily tested. Who is not eligible for asylum or an application for its preparation are we rejected, would have to leave the country “, – quotes edition of excerpts from an interview with Faymann.

The Chancellor stressed that the Schengen rules in Austria” is temporarily canceled. “

Faymann pointed out that if the EU fails to protect the external borders, the security of the Schengen area is questionable. “Then each country must control its national borders” – said the Chancellor.

Previously, due to the influx of refugees, Sweden announced the introduction of monitoring instruments at their borders. Berlin is also not excluded that in future Germany will close its borders. “The Schengen area can not exist without constantly border control does not work if the management of external borders”, – said in mid-December, Foreign Minister of Germany, Thomas de Maiziere.

On the eve of President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker said that the state – EU “failed” the crisis of migrants. He warned that the restoration of borders within the European union can destroy the internal market. “Without the Schengen area, without the free movement of workers, without freedom of movement of European citizens the euro does not make sense”, – he said.

 

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