Austria seeks to withdraw from EU mandatory refugee quota system

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Austria seeks to withdraw from EU mandatory refugee quota system

The Austrian government plans to pull out from the EU resettlement program which obliges it to accept more refugees under the quota assigned to it by Brussels as it has already taken in more than its fair share of asylum seekers.

“We believe an exception is necessary for Austria for having already fulfilled its obligation. We will discuss that with the European Commission,” the Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern told journalists following a weekly cabinet meeting.

“We will send a letter [to Brussels] as quickly as possible and then begin discussions,” he added, as cited by Reuters. The Chancellor also said Austria would like to quit the program without any legal confrontation with Brussels, which could lead to it being accused of violating its obligations under the agreement. “We are not the agent provocateur,” Kern said.

Under the EU refugee resettlement and relocation program agreed in 2015, Austria has to take in some 460 asylum seekers from Italy and about 1,400 refugees from Greece. However, after Austria accepted around 90,000 refugees in 2015, it was granted a temporary exemption from the relocation program. That brief reprieve expired on March 11, 2017.

The government’s decision comes a bit unexpectedly as, just on Monday, the Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka announced that Austria has begun the process of relocation, preparing to accept the first group consisting of 50 underage asylum seekers from Italy.

The minister said he personally regards “the process of relocation as wrong” but admitted that Austria “has to fulfill its obligations” as there are no objective reasons to extend the exemption.

However, later the same day, the Austrian Defense Minister Hans-Peter Doskozil introduced a proposal envisaging the withdrawal from the EU relocation program at the cabinet meeting, arguing that Austria had already “exceeded” its refugee quota.

In February, it was reported that EU member states only relocated slightly more than 15,000 asylum seekers from Italy, Greece, and Turkey out of 160,000 the EU initially pledged to resettle under its controversial refugee quota system.

However, Austria’s move has already provoked an angry reaction in Brussels, which urged Vienna to comply with its commitments under the program, adding that no country can withdraw from the refugee quota system without consequences.

“Austria is now expected to fulfill its legal obligation under the council decision to start relocating,” EU spokesperson Natasha Bertraud said, as cited by the German dpa news agency. She also added that Vienna “can only choose to act outside the law, which we would find both deeply regrettable and not without consequences.”

Apart from Austria that enjoyed its exemption from the program until recently, Hungary and Poland also did not accept any refugees under this system, while Slovakia took in only nine people out of 902 asylum seekers allocated to it under the scheme.

In October 2016, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that his country is ready to sue the European Commission over mandatory refugee resettlement quotas, warning that if Brussels does not take the issue off the table, Budapest will wage “a big battle” and initiate “a serious legal debate.”

Meanwhile, some 26,600 new refugees reached Europe in the first three months of 2017, DPA reports, adding that 164,000 asylum seekers came to Europe over the same period in 2016

Fourteen people were arrested in Austria in January 2017 as some 800 police investigating possible members of the jihadist group Islamic State carried out raids in Vienna and Graz, authorities said.

The raids however were not related to the arrest in Vienna of a 17-year-old suspected Islamist extremist, and investigators did not believe a terror attack was imminent at the time, reports said.

“As part of an ongoing investigation into suspected membership of a terrorist organisation (‘Isis’) a coordinated operation planned for some time took place involving 800 officers,” Graz prosecutors said.

Eight men were initially detained, including three Austrians “with a migration background”, two Bosnians, a Syrian, a Bulgarian and a Macedonian, all aged between 21 and 49, a spokesman said. Four of the arrests were in Vienna and four in Graz.

A further three men and three women from the Balkans were later also arrested in Graz. Two of the women are wives of the male suspects, prosecutors said.

Media reports said that as well as apartments, police also raided unofficial mosques, mostly in Graz. They also said the operation targeted individuals from the former Yugoslavia suspected of establishing a jihadist network in Austria.

The Kronen Zeitung tabloid reported that the raids focused on the network of a Muslim preacher from Bosnia who was jailed for 20 years last July in Graz for recruiting young fighters to the Islamic State group.

The accused, known as Ebu Tejma, is thought to have “brainwashed” dozens of people aged between 14 and 30 and enlisted a number of them to fight for Isis in Syria.

Tejma fled from Bosnia to Vienna following the break-up of Yugoslavia and preached in various Austrian and southern German cities, becoming a “key figure” in pushing Isis propaganda, according to the prosecution.

Austria has so far been spared by the string of attacks by Islamist extremists in other European countries in recent years.

But around 300 people have either left or were intercepted trying to leave Austria to fight in Syria, according to the interior ministry. Around 40 have died there while some 90 have come back.

The 17-year-old of Albanian origin arrested in Vienna on Friday was thought to have been planning a bomb attack. The following day a suspected accomplice was arrested in Neuss, Germany.

The Interior Ministry said earlier this week that leads suggesting the pair may be part of a larger network in Austria are being investigated.

Media reports said that they had experimented with making explosives in the 21-year-old’s Neuss apartment. Authorities said the Austrian had told investigators he made an experimental bomb.
A Syrian refugee is on trial in western Austria for allegedly murdering at least 20 unarmed or wounded soldiers during the Syrian civil war, local media reported.

The trial for the 27-year-old man began in the city of Innsbruck in Tyrol state on Wednesday. He was arrested in June 2016 after allegedly boasting about the killings to a fellow Syrian at a refugee center.

The accused was a member of the Farouq Brigades, a group that is a part of the Free Syrian Army, which was operating in Homs and Aleppo provinces, Kronen Zeitung reported. The organization is now largely defunct.

The Syrian refugee is accused of allegedly killing at least 20 wounded and unarmed Syrian Army soldiers in the city of Homs and the near-by village of Al-Khalidiyah between 2013 and 2014.

“The accused is not being prosecuted for his contribution to combat operations, nor for being a member of a terrorist organization,” the prosecutor stated in his opening remarks, as cited by Kronen Zeitung. “He is accused of shooting dead enemy soldiers on the ground.”

The man initially admitted to the killings, but later recanted his confession. In the meantime, one witness reported that he had seen the suspect in Syria as a fighter. The trial will resume on March 28 due to the suspect’s health.

The Syrian was arrested in June of 2016 along with two Iraqi refugees, aged 19 and 28, who were accused of being members of terrorist groups. One of them was also said to have committed murders.

At the time, the authorities said that the Syrians had arrived via the Balkan route back in 2015, and Tyrol state’s governor, Gunther Platter, called for the full “severity of law” to fall on the refugees.

“We will not allow terrorists to come to our country and endanger our security,” he stressed.

Citations

https://www.sott.net/article/343500-Syrian-refugees-in-Austria-out-terrorist-Put-on-trial-for-executing-20-Syrian-soldiers
https://www.thelocal.at/20170126/anti-terror-raids-in-vienna-and-graz
https://www.rt.com/news/382612-austria-refugee-quota-system/

[pabsawakeParticipant 1761]

Who cares who’s p~~~ed off at Austria! This nation is old school Germania a great nation! Let them lead Europe in the f~~~ off notice!

Oh and by the way F~~~ Merkle too!

"You can either love women or understand them, you can't do both". Truth over everything

[AutoliteParticipant]

WTF is the purpose of a “refugee quota system” anyway? Is it a way to ensure that participating nations all f~~~ themselves equally???

[ChangedParticipant 588]

Very good Austria!
Now that someone broke the ice, all Europe should do the same.

Matriarchy taxes us. Patriarchy taxes us. No Fucks Given! If they give us pains, lets give them pains. Daily.

[bladeParticipant]

Send ghem all back homd and tell them ghe world is going to throw a middle east bithday party . Then launch a s~~~ load of those big birthday candles and light up there world . Straight to f~~~en paradise

THE PLANTATION HAS NOW TURNED INTO THE KILLING FIELDS . WOMAN ARE NOW ROLLING CAMBODIAN STYLE .

[Johndom999Participant 376]

Google: “Captain Capitalism why I just don’t care about the London attack.”
“I just don’t care about the Westminster terror attack” 8:42 video.

[hollowtipsParticipant 681]

How is their such thing as a quota for a mandatory amount of refugee’s a country takes in the ass? Only nations that would vote to be ok with this would be ones where Muslims outnumber the rest of the population. Europe is seriously f~~~ed.

[HitmanParticipant]

let’s hope Austia starts a chain reaction and the E.U. wakes the f~~~ up.

[Y_Participant 4591]

Hitman wrote:

let’s hope Austia starts a chain reaction and the E.U. wakes the f~~~ up.

A lot depends on Le Pen getting serious votes in the first round of the French Presidency. Let’s hope so and other EU nations start to do something.

Islam considers any country where there is a mosque theirs. This is why they are so quick to build these. As far as they are concerned Europeans are living in their land.

I kid you guys not.

[HitmanParticipant]

Autria is for AUSTRIANS.
etc.
not a tough concept.
the E.U. is KILLING EUROPE.

[HitmanParticipant]

Le Pen The Critical Moment.

[Y_Participant 4591]

Hitman wrote:

Le Pen The Critical Moment.

Saw that – good post 🙂

[HitmanParticipant]

Y_ wrote:

Saw that – good post

thank’s man.
i am not the best political analyst ..
it just makes sense.
i guess that’s whats missing in all this chaos,
the globalist’s make no sense.
you don’t have to destroy cultures to take them over..
if that’s what they want.
hell,
i could sit down and design some s~~~ in 20 min that would be more effective.
seems it’s human nature to OVERESTIMATE others ability’s.

[Y_Participant 4591]

Hitman wrote:

thank’s man.
i am not the best political analyst ..
it just makes sense.
i guess that’s whats missing in all this chaos,

You do great man
Sense is where it’s at
Peace

[It’sallbsParticipant]

Hitman wrote:

Autria is for AUSTRIANS.
etc.
not a tough concept.
the E.U. is KILLING EUROPE.

It was meant to.

During World war 2 the main protagenists, Adolf and Herman, had a plan to “dominate the peace”.
This became particularly important when operation sea lion failed.

The EU is a scam by Germany aided and abetted by France.

Look at the Euro and how the ECB operates. Look at what the ERM did to Britain.

Look at who started the EEC.

Allw ars are about money and in WW2 the aim was to destroy Britain.

Trust me they will try again.

http://www.leavemeansleave.eu

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