By
our dpa-correspondent and Europe Online
Rome (dpa) – Italy has offered to step up police checks at the border
with Austria in order to limit the flow of undocumented migrants
towards Germany, its German-speaking northern province of South Tyrol
said Wednesday.
Revising a previous statement, the province said the measure will not
imply that Italy will temporarily check out of the Schengen area, the
European border-free zone.
“The [Italian] government has promptly responded to a request from
Germany expressing its willingness to intensify, whilst respecting
the Schengen agreements, the controls at the Brenner border,” South
Tyrolese authorities said.
A majority of the migrants who land on Italian shores want to travel
on to Germany and other northern European nations. South Tyrol is a
key transit route for those who try to make the trip by train.
The Italian province also said it agreed to take in “for a few days”
300-400 migrants who have arrived in Bavaria from the Balkans, to
ease the pressure on overwhelmed authorities in the southern German
state.
Schengen provisions can be suspended in exceptional circumstances.
Germany reintroduced them in June when it hosted a G7 summit in
Bavaria, a move that caused serious overcrowding in Italy, as
German-bound asylum seekers had to postpone their crossings.
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