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To Enter the EU, or Not to Enter the EU? Interview with Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner

Migration policy is high on the European Union’s agenda. But one month after the bloc’s new rules – known as the Pact on Migration and Asylum – came into force, is the EU beginning to see the desired results? For Magnus Brunner, European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, the answer was yes. In an interview with the European Newsroom (enr) published on Thursday, he said that member states have begun implementing the rules and that …

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In the first six months of 2026, illegal migration had decreased by 37 percent.

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FPÖ security spokesman, MP Gernot Darmann, today described EU Migration Commissioner Brunner's demand to abolish internal border controls as "irresponsible and extremely dangerous." "Mr. Brunner apparently lives in a parallel world in Brussels, cut off from the concerns of ordinary citizens. While our police struggle daily with the consequences of uncontrolled mass immigration and knife crime, and the population suffers from imported crime, he d…

European Commissioner for Migration Magnus Brunner has again called for an end to border controls in Germany due to a decrease in the number of migrants and the introduction of new asylum rules.

"It is now time to abolish internal border controls," says Brussels.

One can no longer hear much from the former Austrian Minister of Finance, Magnus Brunner, who became EU Migration Commissioner after the left-over budget disaster. In the media summer hole he spoke now. However, with a demand that most Austrians will probably not like. At the end of the internal borders Brunner asked Austria and Germany to abolish the controls at the internal borders. Austria controls the border with Slovenia, Germany to Luxembo…

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www.kleinezeitung.at broke the news on Thursday, July 16, 2026.
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