Asylum: “Austria does a lot about the Maen”
In concrete terms, the Dublin agreement should be “consistent contract or tightened up”, he says in an interview with the O Nachrichten.
The numbers that Hattmannsdorfer quotes: From January to June of this year, more than 31,000 asylum seekers were asked in Oberstreich, in the same period of the year there were 10,867 – “an increase of 185 percent”.
In terms of the number of asylum seekers per 100,000 inhabitants, Austria is in second place in Europe with 447, behind the heavily burdened Cyprus (1576 inhabitants per 100,000 inhabitants); the EU average contains 141. Germany and Italy are also well behind Austria with 229 and 90 applications per 100,000 inhabitants.
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“Asylum applications have long ceased to come only from people from countries at war,” says Hattmannsdorfer. After Afghanistan and Syria, the relatively highest number of applications now come from Tunisia, Pakistan, India, Turkey and Morocco. Hattmannsdorfer also calls for an “immediate” determination upon initial contact as to whether asylum procedures in Austria should be carried out under the Dublin Agreement. It needs “a solidarity at European level”, Austria bar in comparison “a lot over the Maen”.