LH Thomas Stelzer – “Great time for a change in asylum policy”

550 children of school age
In the previous year, 7762 members of the family of persons entitled to protection entered Austria, most of them minors (5331). Because reunification is a burden to the school system, in particular, the government wants to temporarily suspend it with reference to an EU emergency article. However, the plan is controversial among human rights experts. According to Stelzer, the reunification in Austria de Sus meant that 550 school -age children were recently admitted in the first half of 2024. In comparison: there are about 200,000 students in our federal state.