Growing migrant inflow: Italian FM summons Austrian ambassador over border controls

The Italian Foreign Ministry has summoned the Austrian ambassador over Vienna’s decision to re-introduce border controls. The move comes as Austria announced it was ready to deploy troops and armored vehicles to the Italian border over the growing migrant inflow.

Migrants: l'Autriche se dit prête à déployer l'armée à sa frontière avec l'Italie

L'Autriche compte "très bientôt" rétablir les contrôles et déployer des soldats à sa frontière avec l'Italie si l'afflux de migrants ne ralentit pas, a annoncé le ministre autrichien de la Défense à un quotidien viennois ce lundi.

Italy, Germany 'totally' opposed to Austria border plans: Renzi

Italy and Germany are utterly opposed to Austria's plan to build a fence at its border with Italy, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Thursday after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Italy, Austria agree to avoid Brenner Pass closure after talks in Rome. Austria had also asked Italy to allow Austrian police on board of Italian trains

Italy and Austria agreed on common terms in order to avoid closure of the Brenner Pass border, Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said Thursday.

Austria 'to build fence' at Italy border crossing

Austria may build a border fence at a crossing with Italy, a provincial police chief has said.

The 400m fence would be located at the Brenner crossing in Tyrol, the Tiroler Tageszeitung newspaper reported.