(Politico) Austria’s Chancellor Christian Stocker is calling for an overhaul of EU asylum rules as his government faces mounting pressure from the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), which topped last year’s parliamentary elections.
Stocker, leader of the center-right People’s Party (ÖVP), said in an interview with the Financial Times published on Sunday that EU asylum laws “no longer correspond” to their original purpose.
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,” Stocker said.
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