(Swiss Info) Switzerland and Austria want to strengthen cooperation on migration and security, they said on Tuesday.
This came at a meeting in Vienna between Swiss Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter and her new Austrian counterpart Gerhard Karner. Their talks focused on European moves to revise the so-called Schengen rules on border controls, ongoing European Union negotiations to reform Europe’s migration and asylum system, and bilateral cooperation on migration and counter-terrorism, according to a Swiss government press release.
Since mid-2021, more than 5,000 refugees have entered eastern Switzerland illegally by train from Austria, mostly young Afghans with France as their destination. Most of the refugees have applied for asylum in Austria, meaning that Switzerland can theoretically send them back.
