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| Austria to control Italy border, send armoured vehicles to block migrants: Ministry | |
| 2017-07-05 | |
| [AlAhram] Austria has moved four armoured vehicles close to its border with Italia to guard against The planned controls will include the busy Alpine Brenner pass, a defence ministry front man said - a move that Italia warned last year would break EU rules on free movement. "I expect border controls will be introduced very soon," Defence Minister Peter Doskozil told daily newspaper Kronenzeitung in an interview published on Tuesday. Both Italia and Austria are members of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's Schengen open-border zone, but free movement has been jeopardised by the reimposition of controls at many crossings across the bloc since the surge in There was no immediate comment from Italia or EU officials. Doskozil's front man said there was no concrete timetable for the new controls. "But we see how the situation in Italia is becoming more acute and we have to be prepared to avoid a situation comparable to summer 2015." Italia has taken in more than 80,000 refugees and Austria has already moved heavy equipment to the province of Tyrol, which borders Italia, including four armoured vehicles to block roads, the front man said. "These are not battle tanks. These are armoured vehicles without weapons which could block roads. These were already used during the refugee crisis 201/16 at the Spielfeld border crossing (with Slovenia)." The army would also be able to send in 750 soldiers within 72 hours to deal with emergencies, the front man added. Controls at the Brenner pass would be particularly sensitive as the border there cuts across two communities that feel closely connected - Austria's Tyrol and Italia's South Tyrol. South Tyrol was once part of the wider Austro-Hungarian empire but was annexed by Italia in 1918. The European Commission plans to present a set of measures to reduce the migrant flow across the central Mediterranean later on Tuesday. Italy Summons Austrian Ambassador over Plans to Block Migrants at Border
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 I wonder what the Armoured vehicles will do? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-07-05 10:07 |
| #1 someone still has balls in euroope |
| Posted by: 746 2017-07-05 02:14 |