According to two Eurobarometer surveys published on Tuesday, more than half of the Austrian respondents said they had already experienced internal border controls, compared to 28 percent EU-wide. One fifth of Austrian companies were affected, compared to 7 percent EU-wide.
The Hungarian government threatened in September to put asylum seekers on buses towards Brussels. But now Prime Minister Viktor Orban is backing down.
The European Heritage Awards Ceremony took place in Bucharest, after the winners were selected in May. The Grand Prize winners and the Public Choice Award winners were also announced.
So far we do not have a final proposal, but even if we have one, we will not rush to announce it before the elections in neighboring Bulgaria are completed, because we believe that even if we have the best possible plan, we do not know if it will be accepted by the other side during this period. Therefore, intensive work is being done on finding solutions and I think this is the right approach for the future, said Murtezani.
Just now that a number of Belgian government websites are being targeted by Russian hackers, the member states of the European Union have approved a new sanctions regime to punish Russian destabilization operations.