Austria has the support of Germany at the present time, and this is because a last-minute announcement made by the Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, reveals the fact that important measures are required from Berlin to carry out asylum procedures at the external borders of the EU , instead of processing within the EU, exactly what Karl Nehammer is asking for.
Austria and Germany have been in dispute for some time regarding migration, at least publicly, because behind closed doors, it seems that both countries have a common goal, forcing the European Commission to impose processing of asylum applications, and not only at the external borders of the EU, in countries like Romania or Bulgaria, which were banned from joining in December 2022.
Austria and Germany have a common goal when it comes to reforming the Schengen space, and as things look, it is very possible that other important countries will support the same thing, so that Romania's accession to Schengen remains for now only a very big unknown, because it does not it is excluded that it will not be possible too soon.
"The current negotiations at the EU level regarding the border procedures at the external borders aim to take a decision in a short period of time regarding the protection of people with low prospects of asylum in the EU. Our joint position in the federal government is very clear: we protect people who have fled war and terror.
To continue to be able to do this, we must limit irregular migration. Reliable control of the EU's external borders is, as the words say, so that we can remain a Europe of open borders internally – and so we can maintain one of the EU's very central achievements.”
