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Border Controls in Austria, Slovakia, Netherlands
After twice upping the number of refugees it would accept, the German pot is overflowing.
12,000 arrived in Munich on Saturday alone. Germany was forced to institute border controls. It can no longer handle its safe-haven status.
In response to German controls, More EU Members Impose Emergency Border Controls.
A wave of EU member states imposed emergency border controls on Monday as fallout from the refugee crisis put the bloc’s free movement area under increasing strain.
Austria and Slovakia imposed tighter border checks on migrants, while The Netherlands also announced that police would carry out spot border checks.
The moves were a response to Germany’s clampdown on its own borders, which involved temporarily disrupting both rail and road routes from Austria and caused reverberations throughout Europe.
Germany’s reintroduction of border controls have stoked fears in Vienna that Austria will be overwhelmed by thousands of refugees trying to reach Germany.
Officials in Austria on Monday said the country’s decision to increase checks on refugees travelling from Hungary — including dispatching the army to the border — remained in line with Schengen rules on free movement across EU borders.
Migrant Sharing Plan Hits Rocks of Reality
Also consider EU Discord Over Migrant Sharing Plan.
EU efforts to agree a binding plan to share out 120,000 refugees fell apart after a minority of countries led by Czech Republic and Hungary objected to a heavily watered down proposal.
After six hours of argument, member states failed to reach unanimous agreement on the plan, although a majority — including France and Germany — supported the scheme.
Countries in favour of the plan will now try to force through a deal with a qualified majority at another meeting in October, setting the stage for a bitter diplomatic fight in the intervening period. …
