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on March 28, 2016 in World News

EU citizens should undergo stricter border checks – Austria’s Interior Minister

Austria’s Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner has called for introducing tighter border checks for European citizens at the EU’s external borders in order to prevent those who joined Islamic State from returning. Tougher border controls could protect European Union countries from Islamic State terrorists coming back from trainings completed in the Middle East, the minister said on Sunday in an interview with the Oesterreich newspaper. “We know that more than 5,000 people have gone to Syria or Iraq to receive training or even to fight. That’s why it’s more urgent than ever that in the future we carry out systematic...

Austria’s Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner has called for introducing tighter border checks for European citizens at the EU’s external borders in order to prevent those who joined Islamic State from returning. Tougher border controls could protect European Union countries...

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