Austria stops processing asylum requests amid EU row
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria has stopped processing asylum requests in an effort to pressure other European Union member states to do more to help absorb waves of refugees pouring into the continent, the country's interior minister was quoted on Saturday as saying.
Vienna needs to "stop the Austrian asylum express" and become less attractive to refugees relative to its EU peers, Johanna Mikl-Leitner told Die Presse newspaper, renewing her demand for other countries to adopt fixed quotas for taking in asylum seekers. ...
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