{"id":131000,"date":"2025-05-25T15:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T15:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/131000\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T15:49:09","slug":"austrian-leader-pushes-eu-asylum-overhaul-under-far-right-pressure-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/131000\/","title":{"rendered":"Austrian leader pushes EU asylum overhaul under far-right pressure \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year\u2019s election saw the FP\u00d6 win<\/a> the most votes but remain excluded from government.<\/p>\n

Human rights groups warn that the Austrian government is exaggerating migration problems to justify crackdowns, including curbs on family reunification. The International Organization for Migration (IOM), UNHCR and UNICEF<\/a> have recently jointly expressed concern over Vienna\u2019s suspension of family reunification for asylum seekers, highlighting potential violations of children\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n

Stocker, who initially denounced FP\u00d6 leader Herbert Kickl as a threat to democracy and national security, now argues that mainstream parties must handle the far right on their own terms<\/a>, rejecting the idea of a political \u201cfirewall.\u201d Stocker has also been criticized for trying to form a government with the far right after initially failing to strike a deal with other centrist parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year\u2019s election saw the FP\u00d6 win the most votes but remain excluded from government. Human rights groups…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[5108,7907,31,33,2000,299,5187,26386,1105,50861,4582,40,2452,6657,48,811],"class_list":{"0":"post-131000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-asylum","9":"tag-austria","10":"tag-democracy","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-extremism","16":"tag-far-right","17":"tag-herbert-kickl","18":"tag-human-rights","19":"tag-immigration","20":"tag-media","21":"tag-migration","22":"tag-rights","23":"tag-security"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114569266053372118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}