Austria confirms it is maintaining its policy on migration and not accepting any more asylum seekers, although some 150 NGOs have pressured the country to accept Middle Eastern migrants stuck in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic. “It remains a no,” said Claudia Türtscher, the spokeswoman for Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg, of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s Austrian People’s Party... 

Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has pledged to continue deporting asylum-seekers back to Afghanistan, after a police officer was attacked at a detention center in Vienna. “I wish the injured policewoman a speedy recovery,” Kurz said after the attack on Wednesday, as quoted by Austrian media. It’s unacceptable when people come to us for protection, but neither abide by our laws nor accept... 

The European Union is moving to ban end-to-end encrypted communication. An EU council of ministers resolution spearheaded by French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of the conservative Austrian People’s Party would mandate that apps such as Telegram, Signal, and WhatsApp provide European intelligence services with backdoor access in order to allow them to better... 

In response to a jihadist terror attack in Vienna last week, the government of Austria will pass a law making it illegal to spread “political Islam” in the country. The European nation’s capital was shook when a lone gunman killed four people and injured 23 others during a rampage that began in the city’s historic quarter. The culprit, 20-year-old Kujtim Fejzullai, was an ISIS sympathizer. In... 

A fourth victim of the terrorist attack in the Austrian capital Vienna has died. One of the assailants was a young man who was convicted for attempting to join Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) militants in Syria last year. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has confirmed that one more person has died, bringing the civilian death toll in the recent Vienna attack to four. The fourth victim was a woman,... 

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has said that his government will not tolerate religious extremism after dozens of Turkish youths reportedly stormed through a church in Vienna. Between 30 and 50 Turkish teenagers are said to have rampaged through the Catholic Church of St. Anton von Padua in Vienna-Favoriten. According to local media reports, the youths shouted “Allahu akbar” as they kicked... 

Europe has been put to test after Turkey provided free passage for scores of invaders heading westward, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said, describing Ankara’s move as an “attack on the EU.” The latest move by Turkey to allow Arab conquerors to leave its territory over the weekend was an attack “on the European Union and Greece,” and also a “test for the EU,” Kurz said on Tuesday. If... 

Wow, so nationalists won back Austria. That’s fantastic news! OVP won 37% + FPO’s 16%, now they finally get a clear majority of 53% Exit polls released following Austria’s parliamentary elections have shown a clear victory for Sebastian Kurz’s Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), strong gains for the Greens, and significant losses for the right-wing populist Freedom Party. According to... 

Sebastian Kurz, Austrian Chancellor and the world’s youngest leader at 31-years-old, announced Friday that he would shut down seven mosques and deport up to 60 Turkish backed radical imams and their families back to their homelands due to breaches of a law that bans ‘political Islam’. The imams facing expulsion are all accused of receiving foreign capital. The move taken by the 31-year-old Chancellor... 

The Global Compact for Sage, Orderly and Regular Migration was approved in July by all 193 UN member nations with the exception of the United States. The US pulled out last year. Hungary have said they will not sign the final document in Morocco in December. Poland is also considering refusing to sign it, having conflicts with Brussels over refusing quotas for asylum seekers. And now, “Austria will... 

Germany will soon send back migrants to Greece if they had already applied for asylum there. The two countries made the deal at the behest of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose coalition government is on shaky ground due to increased opposition to her immigration policies. “EU law states that refugees should apply for asylum in the first EU country they reach, but Germany has typically allowed... 

Deportations are up 36% in Austria amid an immigration overall spearheaded by populist leaders. The deportations were triggered by a recent spate of violent crimes caused by migrants, including the random stabbing of a Vienna family by an Afghan migrant. Additionally, the number of asylum applications has fallen and over 2000 migrants have voluntarily left Austria. “I’m convinced that the solution... 

The Austrian government has announced the closure of at least seven mosques and has started procedures to expel 53 imams as part of its previously-announced policy to crack down on “political Islam”—and which is likely to lead to more Muslims leaving the central European state. According to an official statement on the website of the Austrian Federal Government, the “first decisions have been... 

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s government has taken a tougher stance on asylum-seekers and refugees in a bid to halt the migration flow into the country. Austria’s right-wing coalition has announced its modified plans to cut benefit payments for foreigners, including asylum-seekers, who don’t speak German for five years. “The fundamental rule we will introduce is that German will become... 

European Union border guards should be stationed in North Africa to prevent nonwhites from even crossing the Mediterranean Sea in the first place, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has demanded. Speaking in an interview with the German Welt am Sonntag newspaper, Kurz—who is in a formal alliance with the anti-invasion Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ)—said the EU’s Frontex border control agents...