Austria Prepares for a State of Emergency


The Austrian parliament has tightened asylum rules drastically. On Wednesday, the parliament in Vienna adopted an amendment that allows emergency regulations. Austria may proclaim a “state of emergency” in the refugee crisis in the future. As a result, protection seekers might get little chance at all of seeking asylum.

This is the consequence of an amendment to the asylum law, which a large majority of the Austrian Parliament voted for on Wednesday.

The “state of emergency” is defined as a threat to public order and internal security. Such a decision by the government will have to be approved by Parliament. In this case, applications for asylum seekers will only be accepted from certain refugees. This includes people who have close relatives in Austria, unaccompanied minors, and women with small children. Everyone else would have to return to neighbouring countries.

An “emergency” will initially be limited to six months, but may be extended for up to two years.

With this amendment, Austria gave itself one of the toughest asylum laws in the EU. The possibility of denying the refugees’ applications for asylum at the border exists otherwise only in Hungary.

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h/t Matt Bracken

    
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Philip
Philip
8 years ago

it’s all to late for them now, they have allowed this multicultural lunacy to go on far too long, all the fault of left wing elitist Europeans, all to late for them. then invading army has landed and the rape of there people have begun with the help of there scumbag lunatic leaders. the people must get rid of every leader and bureaucrat who allowed this by by hanging them upside down.