“It’s time to lift internal border controls now,” European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson believes. In an interview with RFE/RL she said she was optimistic about Austria’s decision. Asked what the arguments are for blocking the..
Hungary’s Interior Minister Sándor Pintér stated that abolishing checks at Bulgaria and Romania’s land borders will be on the agenda of the meeting of European interior ministers in December. Interior Minister refuses to predict deadline for..
Austria will wait for the results of the opening of the Schengen area to Bulgaria and Romania by air and water, and only then will it reflect on the opening of the land borders, Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said before the meeting of..
The veto against the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen area should be maintained, Austria's Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said in an interview with Di Pr esse. "It's not only about Romania and Bulgaria. The entire migration system..
Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said today that "visible progress in the protection of the EU's external borders must be made in order for Bulgaria and Romania to be admitted to the Schengen area. "This means that the deployment of the military..
Bulgaria's Minister of the Interior Kalin Stoyanov and the Director of the Main Directorate Border Police Chief Commissioner Anton Zlatanov will hold a working meeting today in Vienna with the Minister of the Interior of Austria Gerhard Karner. The current..
In an interview with the public Austrian television ORF, Austrian Minister of the Interior, Gerhard Karner, reaffirmed his firm position against the expansion of the Schengen area, BTA has reported. To a comment from journalists that Bulgaria and..
In the framework of his participation in the EU Home Affairs Council in Brussels, Bulgarian Minister of the Interior Kalin Stoyanov met with the Federal Minister of the Interior of Austria Gerhard Karner . The focus of their talks was Bulgaria's..
