Greece is finally taking responsibility for guarding the external European border, i have for months been demanding that Greece must recognize this responsibility and be ready to accept European help. This is an important step in the right direction.

Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner

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It's important that every country on the Balkan route acts more restrictively, a backlog on the Slovenian side... cannot be ruled out.

Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner

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If the government in Athens does not finally do more to secure the outer borders, then we will have to openly discuss a temporary expulsion of Greece from the Schengen area, it is a myth that the Greek-Turkish border cannot be controlled.

Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner

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I have commissioned plans for special construction measures, the situation here is especially dynamic. We've had between 3,000 and 8,000 people crossing the border (a day). But we also need to prepare ourselves (in case numbers rise) to 12,000.

Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner

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For a functioning asylum system, you need an effective return policy, and there's still a lot of work to do on this.

Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner

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We will have a charter plane every two weeks and if there is a need we will engage more planes, we are discussing turning these people back also via land routes but we have to talk to Serbia about this.

Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner

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