Sebastian Kurz Quotes

We need to shift our focus from the debates about redistributing refugees within the E.U. and should concentrate more on external border protection.

We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.

We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-shopping in the European Union.

In Greece, refugees are being waved through to the heart of Europe. That is simply unacceptable in the long run. The European Union cannot act like a human trafficker.

I ask our European partners for a truly European migration management. The burden of landings cannot weigh only on the countries of arrival.

If Macron thinks there is no immigration crisis in Italy, he should open his doors to the 9,000 migrants France agreed to welcome from Italy in accordance with signed European agreements.

The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.

Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened.

In 2015, the majority of refugees and migrants reached the European Union through Greece. Greek authorities were overwhelmed by the sheer number of people arriving at their shores. But they did not stay there. They were waved through to Central Europe at an increasing pace.

Our feeling of community and security in Europe requires safe external borders.

A Europe without internal borders can only exist if it has functioning external borders.

A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.

I would like free movement within the E.U. as a result of us protecting external borders.

What is the issue that has brought the European Union to the brink? The issue of migration.

We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.

Regarding the visa-free regime, it has undoubtedly become a problem for the European Union, above all in terms of its capacity to reach agreements.

The recent, single-year influx of unaccompanied minors from foreign countries into the United States is a direct result of President Obama's policies of encouraging amnesty and failing to enforce existing immigration laws.

Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that are crossing through our territory, who are coming from Central America.

The poor economic health of Europe contributed to the migrant crisis. All the migrants wanted to flood to the few healthy countries—–like Germany and the U.K.

France has imposed upon herself an average of more than 2 billion francs a year. This is the minimum price of armed peace for one country only …. Think what United Europe might have done with these millions, had she consecrated even half to the service of progress.

Denmark must not be the social security office for the rest of the world.

Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.

The unregulated migration of hundreds of thousands of refugees from terrorist safe havens in Syria, Iraq, and Libya has created a very difficult threat environment for Europe.

Our common responsibility is to put Europe's interests first.