(Reuters) Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Saturday reiterated his opposition to taking in asylum seekers from the destroyed Moria refugee camp in Greece, prompting criticism from his government coalition partner the Greens and from the opposition.
The fires at Europe’s largest refugee centre, which left more than 12,000 people without shelter, have returned the spotlight to [the] issue of refugees and migrants coming to the European Union, which has struggled to find a response.
Germany and France have agreed to take in nearly 400 minors who have been moved from the island of Lesbos to the Greek mainland, but other EU countries including Austria, Poland and Hungary oppose any such support.
