Austrian nominee Magnus Brunner has won combined reactions in Strasbourg and Brussels because of Vienna’s historical past of opposing key EU migration insurance policies.
Ecu Fee President Ursula von der Leyen’s resolution to assign the migration and residential affairs portfolio to Austrian nominee Magnus Brunner was once one among her maximum sudden alternatives when deciding at the portfolios for her new Faculty.
Vienna’s contemporary more difficult stance on EU migration coverage, in addition to Brunner’s personal background, sprung to the fore.
Austria was once at the back of a long-standing veto towards Bulgaria and Romania’s access into the Schengen Space, and Vienna additionally voted towards and abstained from some key regulations within the migration pact handed on the finish of the former mandate.
Moreover, Brunner, a former finance minister, has no vital enjoy or observe report in migration coverage.
Lately, Radio Schuman spoke with Spanish Socialist MEP Juan Fernando López Aguilar, who was once the rapporteur for the legislative report — the Disaster Control Legislation — that Austria adverse.
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