The Migration Collapse in Austria Threatens to Hit the Schengen Area

... Schengen Agreement. In doing so, he called into question one of the main principles of the European Union – the transparency of internal borders. Faymann’s words came against the background of a series of mass assaults carried out on women by refugees arriving from the Middle East and North Africa ( 1 , 2 ). A total of 2418 such incidents were reported in 2014, which works out at around seven per day. This means that the average number of sexually motivated crimes increased several-fold....