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Several European countries have erected fences to keep migrants out, and, according to the numbers, every case appears to have a large impact. Hungary was a popular pathway for refugees on their way to Germany during the fall. When the daily illegal border crossings were at 7,000 per day, Prime Minister Viktor Orban decided to erect a fence along the border to Serbia and Croatia. The result speaks for itself: When the fence went up Oct. 17, the influx went down to 870 from 6,353 only a day earlier. Illegal border crossing were steadily below 40 per day throughout the...

Last Thursday, two days after the massacres in Brussels, protesters for the Austrian Identitarian movement staged demonstrations in Vienna in front of the headquarters of the Socialist Party (SPÖ) , and of the the Greens (Die Grünen). Acting out a simulated terrorist attack at each location, they told the two parties via bullhorn that the carnage in Brussels and Paris was their fault, thanks to their support for the mass importation of Muslim immigrants.

EU Finance Ministers Debate New-Look Euro Coins; Weigh Mixed-Bad Economic Outlook LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- EU finance ministers, opening a two-day meeting Friday, sought to make sense of a mixed bag of economic data from the euro zone, with Germany posting its strongest growth in four years but Italy sliding into recession. "This is a very serious problem," Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean Claude Juncker said upon arriving at the meeting he was leading. EU Finance Commissioner Joaquin Solbes said "growth in Germany was good news [1% 1Q GDP], but Italy is bad news." And Gerrit Zalm, the Dutch finance minister whose...

Well, not sold out — they were giving the stuff away for free. The politicians distributing the pepper spray in downtown Vienna were labeled “far right” because they wanted to give Austrian women the opportunity to defend themselves against the predatory migrants that are now so numerous in the capital. There was so much demand that they ran out, and had to issue rain checks.

A migrant abducted a four-year-old boy at an Austrian swimming pool just so he could molest his mother when she came to look for him in the latest terrifying sex attack. The man, who barely spoke German had attempted to chat to the 37-year-old woman who was at the pool in the town of Klagenfurt with her young son. When she rejected his advances, the asylum seeker went into the children's play pool, where her son was and grabbed the boy.

An angry rant on Facebook by an Austrian businesswoman after she went to the capital Vienna and ended up having her handbag snatched, getting groped on the breasts and then fighting off a carjacker has gone viral. Blonde Rosita Kohzina posted the video a few minutes after the attempted carjacking, in which she said the man had tried to force open the doors to her car at a traffic light. She said: "I am really seething. And I don't want anybody to tell me I'm making this up and that it never happened." She said that after fighting off the...

The celebrated Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt - considered to be the "pope" of the baroque music revival - has died in Vienna aged 86.

One is a landlocked country in Europe, the other is a huge land mass in the middle of the Indian Ocean... but that didn't stop CNN confusing Australia with Austria. The embarrassing blunder was made during a segment on the Austrian government's plans to erect a fence at its Slovenian border to stop refugees sneaking into the country. But CNN's graphic editors got confused and aired a graphic stating that 'Australia' - a country almost 8,000 miles outside of Europe - was 'building fence at Slovenian border.'

Greece furiously recalled its ambassador from Austria and Brussels warned the bloc's migration system could collapse within ten days as Europe's refugee crisis neared breaking point on Thursday. Further chaos loomed as a French court approved the partial evacuation of the "Jungle" migrant camp near the port of Calais on the coast, a move that Belgium fears will send Britain-bound migrants coming its way. Attempts by EU interior ministers meeting in Brussels to agree a unified response to the biggest migration crisis in the bloc's history frayed over the fact that many states are increasingly taking matters into their own...

Austria has proposed sending its soldiers to Macedonia to strengthen Macedonian borders amid the refugee influx, Austrian Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil said Wednesday. Austria has earlier placed daily limits on the number of people entering their territory and the number of asylum applications. "Austria is in favor of strengthening border controls along the "Balkan route' and offers support for Macedonia in the form of troops," Doskozil said before a meeting with the ministers of the Balkan countries, as quoted by Der Spiegel magazine. A ministerial conference on the migrant crisis is taking place on Wednesday in Vienna with the...

The increase to 1,450 soldiers and reservists comes after criticism on Austria last week for saying it would only accept 80 asylum seekers. Austria said Sunday it is beefing up the army at its borders to deal with the inflow of migrants, with 450 more troops from Monday and military police on standby in case of trouble. The increase to 1,450 soldiers and reservists comes after Austria drew criticism last week for saying it would only accept 80 asylum seekers and let 3,200 migrants pass through the country per day. The troops will assist police carrying out checks on people...

Hordes of predatory Muslim migrants have turned an Austrian train station into a 'no-go zone' for local women, who dub the station 'The Terminus of Fear'. The men fight, they fall down, the vomit, they defecate in the bushes on the greensward outside the station entrance, women told MailOnline. Linz Station has become a gathering point for migrants rejected by Germany at the border a few miles away - drawn to its free internet, cheap drink, fast-food joints and heated passenger halls as they calculate their next move. But pack mentality has set in, creating a 'Cologne-light' mentality, which sees...

Hordes of drunk, predatory migrants have turned an Austrian train station into a 'no-go zone' for local women, who dub the station 'The Terminus of Fear'. Linz Station has become a gathering point for migrants rejected by Germany at the border a few miles away - drawn to its free internet, cheap drink, fast-food joints and heated passenger halls as they calculate their next move. But pack mentality has set in, creating a 'Cologne-light' mentality, which sees women subjected to having their breasts and buttocks grabbed and the alcohol-fuelled men try to steal kisses, all the while slurring lewd sexual...

BERLIN (AFP) - Austria's decision to only accept 80 asylum seekers a day while letting thousands of others transit through sends "the wrong signal" and is "unacceptable", German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Sunday. Berlin fears many of these migrants are heading straight for Germany, where tensions are on the rise after the country saw an influx of over a million asylum seekers last year, putting huge pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door policy. "It won't work if some countries think they can solve the problem by putting extra weight on Germany's back," de Maiziere told ARD public television,...

A 17-year-old Swedish girl arrested in Austria has been found guilty of planning to join Isis militants. The teenager was sentenced to a year in prison by a court in Vienna, but told that she would not have to spend any further time in jail because she has been in custody since her arrest last year. "It has been the worst time of my life. Now I just want to go home," the school girl told Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter just after the verdict was announced. "I am happy that my client is free, that was the goal. My client...

Someone should remind the Pope that walls saved Christendom from Islam. Constantinople's walls held it back for 500 years but those walls failed and we know the sad outcome. Luckily, the Walls of Vienna held off Islam, twice or Islam would have advance deep into Germany and maybe beyond. A section of the old bastions (Molkerbastei) preserved to retain an old house and a relief celebrating the 1683 fights which took place on that site (The relief shows Christian soldiers behind a wall killing invading Turkish Muslims).

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. Austria is set to introduce a new border management system at Spielfeld, a key crossing point on its south-eastern border with Slovenia, which aims at speeding up applications and...

..it was 'a sexual emergency' says she regrets telling her children 'migrants need our help' Migrant, 20, claimed he raped the boy because it was a 'sexual emergency' Raped boy in cubicle of Theresienbad pool - then went on the diving board The victim's mother, Dunja, a refugee from Serbia, said she regrets telling her children that migrants need help She said his defence as 'just monstrous' and that he should be deported The mother of the boy who was raped by an Iraqi migrant in a swimming pool in Austria, has said she regrets teaching her children to be...

After a year-and-a-half long voyage aboard the International Space Station, a group of fungi collected from Antarctica has proven its ability to withstand harsh, Mars-like conditions. More than half of the cells remained intact over the course of the 18-month study, providing new insight for the possibility of life on Mars. These fungal samples, along with lichens from Spain and Austria, have allowed European researchers to assess the survivability and stability of microscopic lifeforms on the red planet. The tiny fungi taken from Antarctica are typically found in the cracks of rocks in this dry, hostile region. Scientists took samples...

Austrian authorities are investigating after children were sent home from a kindergarten with homework to learn the words to a Christian hymn, which had the word ‘God’ replaced with ‘Allah’. The Austrian parent of one child at the Muslim majority school in Oberösterreich complained after he found the handout given to his daughter with the words and musical notation for the popular German children’s hymn ‘Gottes liebe ist so wunderbar’ (God’s love is so wonderful) had been edited and photocopied with new lyrics.