Vienna – The new Austrian government said on Wednesday that family reunion processes for migrants will be stopped immediately as the country is no longer able to adequately absorb new people.
This remedy is temporary and is to ensure that the migrants who are already in the country can be better integrated, the Chancellor Christian Stocker of Conservative Austrian People’s Party said.
“Austria’s capacity is limited, and that is why we have decided to stop further overloading,” the stocker said.
The new measure means that migrants with so-called protected position-which means they cannot be deported-now family members are still not allowed to live in Austria in their home countries.
The new three-sided coalition formed with the People’s Party, Center-Left Social Democrats and Liberal NEO has said that curbing migration is one of its top issues and vowes to implement strict new refuge rules.
Official figures show that 7,762 people arrived at Austria last year as part of family reunion processes for migrants. The figure was 9,254 in 2023. Most of the new arrival were minors.
The migrants who are still in the shelter process or have received exile orders are not allowed to bring family members from their original countries to the first place.
The most recent shelters came from Syria and Afghanistan, Austrian Chancellori said in a statement.
There are 9 million residents in the European Union country.
The stocker stated that this remedy was necessary because “the quality, integration of the school system and eventually our entire system needs to be preserved – so that we do not disrupt their ability to function.”
The government said that it had already informed the European Union of its new measures. It was denied to say how long it would stop the family reunion.
“Since last summer, we have been successful in reducing the family reunion,” said the internal minister Gerhard Konar. “Now we are making a legal basis to ensure that this stop is durable.”
Throughout the continent, governments are trying to cut the number of migrants. Clamp-down on migrants is a rigorous change since ten years ago, when countries such as Germany and Sweden openly welcomed more than 1 million migrants from war-torn countries such as Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Many communities and towns in other countries, such as Germany, also say that they no longer have the ability to find shelters or houses for migrants.
The European Union is trying to keep more migrants more than entering its 27 country blocks and moves fast to existing those whose refuge processes are rejected.
On Tuesday, the European Union unveiled a new migration proposal, which establishes the inauguration of the so-called “returns hubs” in the third countries to intensify exile for the refugee refugee.
According to the European Commission, so far only 20% of people are effectively removed from the European Union territory.
The Commission has proposed “a” European System “for Return that will set a standard for all 27 members of the block and allow national authorities from one country to implement exile orders issued by another. Such rules were missing from the European Union’s migration and refuge treaty last year.
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Associated press writer Kirsten Grisber reported from Berlin.
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