Austria to set limit on asylum numbers

Jan 20, 2016



Refugees arriving at Vienna's Westbahnhof station. File photo: Caritas

Austria to set limit on asylum numbers


Austrian state governors and leaders of the federal government are meeting in Vienna on Wednesday for a summit on the refugee crisis - with the focus on setting an upper limit on how many asylum applications Austria will process each year.


According to media reports ministers have already agreed on a figure of no more than 120,000 over the next three or four years - equal to around 1.5 percent of Austria’s population of roughly 8.5 million people.

More police will be deployed on Austria’s southern border, to assist the army in carrying out stringent checks on migrants arriving at the main border crossing with Slovenia. Those fleeing conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq are supposed to be allowed through, but their identity papers and bags will face greater scrutiny.

The governing SPÖ and ÖVP parties have also said they intend to tighten the rules for family reunification, make it easier to deport failed asylum seekers, and where possible place a time limit when granting asylum.

Last year Austria became a major transit country for hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees entering the European Union, with most travelling onwards to reach Germany or Sweden. However, some 90,000 requested asylum in Austria in 2015.

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