Austria threatens to extend border controls - newspaper


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  • Sunday, 07 Feb 2016

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann attends a session of the parliament in Vienna, Austria, January 27, 2016. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria will extend its border controls if Turkey does not take back refugees picked up at sea on their way to Greece, Chancellor Werner Faymann said in an interview with the daily Oesterreich, being published on Sunday.

He had earlier said that migrants picked up at the Greek external EU border should be sent back directly to Turkey because this was the only measure that would make a radical enough impact.

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