[Austrian Interior Minister Sobotka addresses a news conference in Vienna]Austria said on Thursday emergency border checks imposed within Europe's free travel zone during the migrant crisis should be extended beyond the mid-November deadline as the bloc does not yet have the situation under control. Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Austria introduced emergency border checks inside the so-called Schengen zone as the continent struggled to control the chaotic influx of about 1.3 million people last year. Border controls were restored by countries along migration routes from the main arrival point in Greece to Germany, the top destination for refugees and migrants.
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