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Saturday, April 2, 2016

Austria wants to deploy soldiers on Italy border, defence minister says

[A woman with a child sits in front of their tent at a makeshift camp for migrants and refugees at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni]Austria plans to deploy soldiers at the Brenner border with Italy to stem an expected increase in migrants trying to get to northern Europe, Defence Minister Hans Peter Doskozil told a German newspaper on Saturday. Austria, which has broken ranks with Germany in handling Europe's migrant crisis by imposing border restrictions, has previously said it is preparing to introduce tighter controls if needed. "As the EU's external borders are not yet effectively protected, Austria will soon ramp up strict border controls.


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