Austria confirms the effect of the extremely important measures decided in Vienna, and implemented by Gerhard Karner for the Schengen Area, they can contribute substantially to the speeding up of Romania's accession process, and this because an increase in controls at the borders with Italy, Hungary and Slovenia, reduced the number of illegal migrants who entered the EU in the first months of 2023.
Austria says that apart from these measures, it has substantially accelerated the review procedures of asylum applications submitted by foreign citizens, so that they are accepted or rejected much faster, especially in the case of people from India and Tunisia, who arrived in The Schengen area, 30.000 being rejected just for them in a very short period of time.
Austria continues to implement measures of this kind to protect its borders, and implicitly to protect the Schengen area, all while Romania is hoping for an accession as soon as possible, perhaps even during the year 2023, although this seems increasingly improbable at the current time, mainly because of the many divergences between the leaders of important EU countries.
"Border controls at the borders with Hungary and Slovenia, but also controls in the border area in the direction of Italy and Slovakia. We also have Austrian policemen on Hungarian territory. We significantly accelerated the procedures. For example, for people who do not have the right to asylum. Including from India and Tunisia.
From these two countries alone, around 30.000 asylum applications were rejected in a very short time, so these people returned or traveled further to avoid burdening the Austrian system. Overall, unlike many other European countries, Austria is experiencing a decline in the number of asylum seekers."
