Austria takes an extremely serious position against Schengen at the moment, Karl Nehammer remaining firmly against the completion of Romania's accession to Schengen, among his party members considering the system a failure and still demanding very tough measures to reduce illegal migration, following those implemented in the last months.
Austria wants to make it difficult to reunify migrant families on its territory, to make it much more difficult to complete asylum procedures, but also to outsource them to third countries, plus an increase in deportations in them, all without the completion of Romania's Schengen accession taking place very quickly soon, based on the wishes of Chancellor Karl Nehammer, and the veto from December 2022.
Austria continues its tough policy against migration, through the ruling party, led by Karl Nehammer, in the hope of gaining new victories in the next elections, but unfortunately the completion of Romania's accession to Schengen is one of the victims of the Austrian Chancellor's wishes to controlled many of the decisions made in Europe.
"ÖVP considers Schengen a failure, family reunification should be more difficult, asylum procedures should be outsourced to third countries, and deportations from there should increase. In the migration chapter of the electoral program, asylum procedures and deportations to safe third countries are mentioned as an objective.
This should prevent people from heading to Europe. The party wants to increase the budget, staff and powers of the EU border protection agency Frontex, and family reunification should be treated more strictly. Asylum procedures in third countries should be possible even if those affected have no connection to those countries. supports the OVP party in Austria."
