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Austria Sends Troops to Hungary-Serbia Border
[AnNahar] Austria on Thursday sent 60 troops to Hungary's border with non-EU Serbia as Vienna's defense minister warned that the EU's ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... was "showing cracks." Austria's defense ministry said that the soldiers will not be armed or be involved in intercepting people making it past Hungary's border fence with Serbia. Hungary has been criticized by rights groups and others for its alleged mistreatment of refugees and its refusal to take in some of the huge numbers of refugees who arrived in Europe in 2015. Based at Hodmezovasarhely near Szeged in south-east Hungary initially for six months, the Austrian soldiers are sappers who will help build roads and erect containers. Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil said that EU countries needed to do more to protect their borders because the bloc's accord with Turkey risked unraveling. "In my opinion the cracks in this accord are starting to show," Doskozil told Oe1 public radio. "We have a time window in Europe in which to organize ourselves" before the deal collapses, he said. "Therefore it is right, and high time, that... EU member states recognize this and confront this challenge, deal with the problem themselves and be ready to act themselves." Under the EU-Turkey deal in force since March, Ankara agreed to take back However Greece has been slow to send In addition Greece complains that the EU has failed to provide additional assistance as promised and to share enough of the thousands of Athens wants to transfer some of the nearly 16,000 Posted by: trailing wife 2016-11-04 |
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