>Christian Stocker, leader of the centre-right People’s party (ÖVP), told the Financial Times that his three-way coalition aims to restore “stability” and “contentment” in a nation still reeling from the historic victory of the hard-right Freedom party (FPÖ) in parliamentary elections last year.
>Stocker said Austria is one of a “growing group of countries that’s actually dealing with this [EU asylum reform] question very in-depth and we all agree that the laws that we have now no longer correspond to their original intention.”
>He added: “We need to go back to the roots of what this law means here so that it can apply to those who need it.”
>Stocker’s government has moved swiftly to address public concerns about immigration, curbing the right of refugees to bring in their children and close family members.
>Austria claims EU rules on family reunification have triggered a youth crime wave and left schools unable to cope with an influx of non-German speaking children.
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>Christian Stocker, leader of the centre-right People’s party (ÖVP), told the Financial Times that his three-way coalition aims to restore “stability” and “contentment” in a nation still reeling from the historic victory of the hard-right Freedom party (FPÖ) in parliamentary elections last year.
>Stocker said Austria is one of a “growing group of countries that’s actually dealing with this [EU asylum reform] question very in-depth and we all agree that the laws that we have now no longer correspond to their original intention.”
>He added: “We need to go back to the roots of what this law means here so that it can apply to those who need it.”
>Stocker’s government has moved swiftly to address public concerns about immigration, curbing the right of refugees to bring in their children and close family members.
>Austria claims EU rules on family reunification have triggered a youth crime wave and left schools unable to cope with an influx of non-German speaking children.