In January, there was a 40% drop in asylum applications compared to the previous month
Vienna (OTS) – “January’s asylum application figures show once once more: the asylum brake is working. The number of applications is massively reduced, our system is relieved. And that’s not without reason: the abolition of the Serbs’ visa exemption for Tunisians and Indians, the intensive controls at the border, “Operation Fox” and the Schengen veto form a bundle of effective measures once morest irregular migration to Austria. The facts and figures are crystal clear here and cannot be distorted by untruths. The asylum pressure is easing – you can rely on Chancellor Karl Nehammer and Interior Minister Gerhard Karner. With these facts, the mirror of failure is held up to the radicalized FPÖ under Herbert Kickl in particular: Because with its destructive opposition policy, the FPÖ has achieved absolutely nothing,” said the Secretary General and security spokesman of the People’s Party, Christian Stocker, on the recently published asylum statistics.
“In January, there was a 40% drop in asylum applications compared to the previous month. At the beginning of February, 91,553 people were receiving basic services, around 55,000 of whom were displaced by the war in Ukraine. If you subtract the war displaced persons, you can see that there are around 6,500 fewer people in basic services than in 2019 under the then Interior Minister Kickl. This is further evidence that Kickl was unsuitable as Home Secretary. As a politician you need intellect and the necessary intuition. None of this applies to Kickl. All he can do is juggle empty and radical slogans and attract attention with verbal gaffes,” emphasizes Stocker.
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