Austria's junior coalition party calls for halving asylum cap


  • World
  • Thursday, 12 Jan 2017

VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of a party in Austria's coalition government on Wednesday called for further limits on the number of people entitled to apply for asylum, citing among his reasons a need to cut down on sexual assaults and criminality.

The government introduced a cap on asylum claims in January 2016, saying it could not cope with an influx like the one in 2015, in which Austria took in 90,000 asylum seekers, or more than 1 percent of its population.

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