Austria backs calls for joint EU response to migrant crisis


  • World
  • Thursday, 18 Sep 2014

ROME (Reuters) - The incoming European Commission must step up efforts with EU governments to develop a coordinated approach to refugee and asylum policy, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann said on Thursday.

Faymann has faced growing pressure from local politicians in Austrian border regions to step up frontier controls to handle a growing number of refugees arriving through Italy, one of its neighbours to the south.

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