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While Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) emphasized in a video message that Austria will not accept refugees, Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler (Greens) wants to continue negotiating on the matter. Before the broadcast of the conversation recorded as part of Ö1’s “Im Journal zu Gast” interview series on Saturday, Sebastian Kurz supported his refusal to accept refugees in a Facebook video posted in the morning, about the details.
Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler (Greens) wants to continue negotiating with the ÖVP on the admission of refugees from the burned-out Moria camp in Greece. “If even Mr Söder can do that and now also the Dutch Prime Minister Mr Rutte, then Austria can do it too,” he said on Ö1 radio on Saturday.
Kogler wants a solution “with a European spirit”
The Vice Chancellor also pointed out that there are also voices in the ÖVP itself in favor of accepting refugees from Moria: “We are not only organizing in the green zone. Rather, it is quite obvious that more and more people, or more mayors and mayors – for example from ÖVP -, church organizations, many aid organizations, are also working in this direction, “he said in the conversation recorded for the Ö1-” Mittagsjournal “. “We are working in talks with the coalition partner to find a solution that we can do with the European spirit and in European concert with the countries that have agreed that we are there.”
Video: Political scientist Peter Filzmaier on the blessing of the house in the coalition
Meanwhile, ten European states have agreed to accept a total of 400 unaccompanied minors, of which only Germany and France want to accept 100 to 150 each. This first step will be followed by another, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) said on Friday. “It is very important to me personally that we find a quick solution for families with children.”
Criticism from all opposition parties
SPÖ, FPÖ and Neos harshly criticized Kurz’s attitude. “Saving lives is never a symbolic policy,” he says. SPÖ Chief Pamela Rendi-Wagner. “Anyone who doesn’t help is an accomplice. Your teachings don’t change this truth either.” Jörg Leichtfried, deputy head of the SPÖ announced that the largest opposition party in the National Council would propose to accept the children of Moria as a “humanitarian emergency measure”. The app is also a “litmus test for Vice Chancellor Kogler and the ruling green party.”
too Beate Meinl-Reisinger, Head of Neos spoke on Twitter once again in favor of fostering children and families: “We will move on. We are taking families with young children out of Moria. Now. We are creating a perspective and a decent life for these individual people. That does not help in the whole world, but in the whole world of these children, parents. “
The FPÖ, on the other hand, wants to test the ÖVP for its tough stance: “We will do the acid test with the ÖVP and present the relevant proposals in parliament. I am curious to see how the ÖVP actually votes,” he said. Herbert Kickl, president of the FPÖ club via broadcast on Saturday.
Image gallery: The scope of the humanitarian catastrophe in the Moria refugee camp
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Photo gallery: Fire disaster in a refugee camp: the extent of the destruction
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