Government & Politics

Austrian leader pushes EU asylum overhaul under far-right pressure The bloc’s asylum laws 'no longer correspond to their original intention,' Austria’s Chancellor Christian Stocker says in FT interview.

(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 […]