Austrian troops to stop migrants crossing border with Italy

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Austria has announced it is ready to use soldiers and tanks to stop migrants crossing its border with Italy, as Brussels urged Europe to help Italian authorities manage an “unprecedented” arrival of people from north Africa.

Austrian defence minister Hans Peter Doskozil announced that four Pandur armoured personnel carriers had been sent to the Tyrol region and 750 troops were on standby.

Speaking to the Kronen Zeitung, Doskozil said troops on the Brenner pass would be “indispensable” if large numbers of people continued to arrive in Italy from the central Mediterranean. He told the popular daily newspaper that border controls on the busy Alpine pass would be reintroduced very soon, although his office said no timetable for the measures was fixed.

Austria and Italy are both part of the EU’s border-free Schengen zone, which eliminates passport checks at the frontier. Many countries reintroduced some border controls after 1 million refugees and migrants arrived in Europe in 2015.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/04/austrian-troops-to-stop-migrants-crossing-border-with-italy

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Bless Austria.

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Does this put Austria in a bad position with their overlords in Brussels?

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Just now, Bill & Katya said:

Does this put Austria in a bad position with their overlords in Brussels?

They were one of the first to start throwing Shengen to the wayside at the start of the Syrian refugee crisis. 

 

Most of the political correctness comes from the countries trying to force the rest of Europe to accept refugees against their will, like France, Germany, Italy, Greece, etc.

 

There's significant backlash against this from the same region as Austria, like Hungary, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, supposedly Kosovo and Albania (though I'm somewhat skeptical of these two), and its spreading to countries like Denmark as well. 

 

It's nice to see backlash to the attempted forced integration of people based on ethnicity rather than mindset.

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Would seem so much easier for their to be direct transportation to Germany, everybody happy.

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16 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Would seem so much easier for their to be direct transportation to Germany, everybody happy.

Alas, catapults are inhumane.

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3 minutes ago, IAMX said:

Alas, catapults are inhumane.

Something bigger...

 

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2 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Something bigger...

 

If made in Turkey or Greece..

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Boiler said:

Something bigger...

 

I always love the trebuchets on Punkin' Chunkin'!