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Austria to block migrants with expanded border wall

31 Sunday Jul 2016

Posted by essaybee2012 in Austria, Balkans migration route, border controls, European Union (EU), free movement, Hungary, illegal migration, migrants, refugees, Schengen zone, Syria

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http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/691905/Austria-plan-build-huge-border-fence-stop-migrants-Schengen-EU-Brussels?_ga=1.59719725.1244699211.1469928307

Austria announces plan to build huge border fence to stop migrants as Schengen crumbles

AUSTRIA has unveiled plans to build a massive 100km fence along its border to stop migrants and refugees crossing into the country.

By Nick Gutteridge and Monika Pallenberg
PUBLISHED: 15:00, Thu, Jul 21, 2016 | UPDATED: 15:10, Thu, Jul 21, 2016Migrants at a fence in HungaryGETTY
Austria is to build a huge new border fence
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Engineers in the central European state have finalised plans for the vast barrier, which would stretch along its entire southern border with Hungary.  Austria has repeatedly clashed with Brussels over its clampdown on illegal migration and has already put a daily cap on the number of people who can claim asylum.

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And earlier this year the country’s parliament voted through a motion allowing it to declare a state of emergency if migrant numbers suddenly rise, meaning it could instantly shut its borders.  The new border fence will mark a considerable escalation in Austria’s physical attempts to bring down migration, with the country only having constructed one small 4km fence along its border with Slovenia to date.

Hungary's border fenceGETTY

The 100km fence will run along the border with Hungary

Migrants crossing into AustriaGETTY

The number of migrants using the Balkans route has dropped off recently

State officials have reached agreements with hundreds of landowners along the 100km stretch of border which will allow the fence to be put up in record time should the number of refugees increase again, according to a police spokesman.  Austria is on the Balkan migration route to the ‘promised lands’ of Germany and Sweden, where most asylum seekers arriving in Europe want to settle and start a better life.  At one point last year the country was brought to its knees by thousands of people crossing its borders every day, but the numbers have tailed off significantly since the EU signed its migrant deal with Turkey.  Only between 20 and 30 migrants arrive in Austria from Hungary every day at the moment but, with the political chaos in Turkey and the possible collapse of the current agreement, the country has decided to take precautions.
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Migrants go to incredible lengths to cross borders

Wed, July 20, 2016

Desperate migrants fleeing Syria and surrounding places have been trying to sneak across borders in incredible ways.  These include hiding in suitcases and sleeping next to car bonnets

[For slide show, see:  http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/691905/Austria-plan-build-huge-border-fence-stop-migrants-Schengen-EU-Brussels?_ga=1.59719725.1244699211.1469928307%5D

This is the moment a lorry full of migrants said 'we are from Europe' after being pulled over by police in Britain's capital.

Tom Andrews / SWNS.com
 

This is the moment a lorry full of migrants said ‘we are from Europe’ after being pulled over by police in Britain’s capital.

The fence will cover just a third of the 300km border between the two countries, but officials have said that they other sections are too remote and difficult to traverse to provide an attractive migration route.  It will be patrolled day and night by troops and police dog teams in the event of a state of emergency being declared, providing an impregnable barrier to the movement of large numbers of people northwards.  Neighbour Hungary is no stranger to border fences, having angered EU officials by building its own 175km fence along its border with Serbia last year when the migrant crisis was at its peak.  But relations between Hungary and Austria have been strained in recent months, with Vienna demanding that Budapest take back several thousand migrants under the Dublin agreement – a request which has so far been refused.  For video, see:
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http://players.brightcove.net/2540076170001/4kfqgmETl_default/index.html?videoId=5037072829001
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The sight of border fences going up across central Europe has been the most visible sign of the crumbling of the Schengen zone and the slow death of the Brussels dream of free movement.  Hungary and Austria are two of a number of nations to have reintroduced border controls and checks in light of the migrant crisis.  Despite the EU demanding they now drop what are supposed to be emergency measures, Austria’s move to further secure its frontiers indicates Brussels will find it tough to return the continent to the status quo.

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