Austria implemented a series of last-minute measures, which unfortunately affect both Romania and the Schengen area, and this is because Minister Gerhard Karner had to implement an increase in the number of controls at the border with Hungary, in the Nickelsdorf customs point, after Viktor Orban released hundreds of human traffickers last week.
Austria has intensified controls at Nickelsdorf this week, Gerhard Karner visiting the customs point the other day together with his Danish counterpart, the head of the customs police stating that the number of illegal migrants detected at that customs point has decreased by 55% from 2023 to 2022, all thanks strengthening the protection of its external borders.
Austria reacted to Hungary's measures by intensifying border controls, and unfortunately for Romania and Schengen this is very bad news, because that customs point is the main one for transit to Austrian territory, Germany, or Western Europe, so waiting times would he was going to grow substantially there during the summer, with many trips.
“The border crossing is a hotspot for migration and during the 2015 refugee crisis, 300.000 refugees crossed it in a few days. This year alone, 71 human traffickers were arrested. Compared to April 2022, almost 55% fewer migrants were identified.
Many topics that have united us for some time. And we are also very much in line – Austria and Denmark in particular – when it comes to consistently stepping on the brakes on asylum by preventing asylum abuse. "Operation Fox", which aims to combat human smuggling in cooperation with the Hungarian police, and has already caught more than 80 human traffickers."
