The Austrian veto against Romania’s accession to the Schengen Area continues to cause domestic unrest. Indeed, the problems lie in Hungary, says Vice-Chancellor Werner Kugler.
He has been active in philanthropy in Romania for over 30 years Jesuit– Father Georg Spurchel believes that the ÖVP-Green federal government’s veto against Romania’s accession to Schengen is “an internal political move that oppresses Romanians.” In an interview with “Cronin newspaper(Sunday edition) Spurschell said: “This is how my Romanian friends understood it. They love Austria and saw the veto as a cruelty that helped no one.”
Born in Feldkirch (Vorarlberg) in 1946, Spurschell founded the Austrian aid organization Concordia Social Projects in 1991, which this year received the World Peace Prize. Catholic Peace movement “Pax Christi International”. Concordia runs many charitable projects in Romania, Bulgaria, Kosovo and the Republic of Moldova.
Schallenberg: “Austria is not isolated in the European Union”
Chancellor Karl Nehammer and Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (both from the ÖVP) justified the Austrian vetoes against Romania and Bulgaria’s accession to Schengen with an increase in illegal immigration, also via the Balkan route. From the point of view European UnionThe Commission and the European Parliament have fulfilled all conditions for accession to Schengen.
Bucharest reacted angrily and withdrew its ambassador from Vienna. A special EU summit on the subject is scheduled for February 9. Romania and Bulgaria’s accession to Schengen is “unrealistic” for Nehmer even then.
Foreign Minister Alexander Mountain voice (ÖVP) explained in an interview with APA at the end of the year that Austria is “not isolated” within the EU because of its controversial veto. He fully supports the decision: “It’s a completely normal debate process.” If Austria, as a country “in the center of the continent”, has the largest number of asylum applications in Europe, “then something is wrong”.
Kugler: Then you have to kick Hungary out of Schengen
Media reports that this topic was brought up by ÖVP politicians for domestic reasons were described by Schallenberg as “complete nonsense”. It is short-sighted to think that “we will make a profit by suddenly pointing out the large number of asylum applications in Austria”.
Vice Chancellor Werner coogler They (the Greens) have recently shown no understanding of the veto, but as to the fact that something had to be changed in the system: “We cannot register more than 100,000 people in Austria according to the rules and realize 75,000 people,” he said in an interview with the newspaper “Kleine Zeitung.” (Sunday edition) The 80,000 were not even pre-registered, and the problems actually lay with Hungary: “If we stick to the logic of the Minister of the Interior, then Hungary should be expelled from Schengen, because it is from there that most unregistered transfers to Austria occur.”
>>> Interview in the “Kleine Zeitung”
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