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Austria’s leader praised Britain’s asylum policy as a pioneer in outsourcing asylum proceedings to places outside Europe, citing a U.K. bill to send migrants to Rwanda as he hosted Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Vienna.
Austria’s leader praised Britain’s asylum policy as a pioneer in outsourcing asylum proceedings to places outside Europe, citing a U.K. bill to send migrants to Rwanda as he hosted Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Vienna.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s conservative party has long taken a hard line on migration and faces a strong challenge from the far-right Freedom Party in an election expected this fall. Nehammer said Austria and the United Kingdom, which left the European Union in 2020, are strategic partners when it comes to being able to conduct asylum proceedings in safe third countries.
Austria is one of 15 countries in the 27-nation EU that called last week for more agreements with countries where migrants depart from or travel through to get to Europe. That call came after EU nations endorsed sweeping reforms to the bloc’s failed asylum system.
In late April, the British Parliament passed legislation to send some migrants to Rwanda, clearing the way for flights this summer under Sunak’s controversial plan aimed at deterring risky English Channel crossings by people desperate to reach the U.K. Human rights activists and migrants’ groups have vowed to continue fighting the policy, which they say is unethical and inhumane.
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Sunak on his part said that it is important to pursue new ideas, solutions, and deterrents to the migration issues like the one pioneered by Britain in the Rwanda scheme.
