Austria to QUIT UN migrant pact in solidarity with US and Hungary
AUSTRIA will follow the United States and Hungary in pulling out of a United Nations migration pact over concerns it will blur the line between legal and illegal migration, the country’s right-wing government said on Wednesday. The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was approved in July by all 193 member nations except the United States, which backed out last year. Hungary's right-wing government has since said it will not sign the final document at a ceremony in Morocco in December. Poland, which has also clashed with Brussels by resisting national quotas for asylum seekers, is also considering withdrawing its support. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is an immigration hard-liner who rules in coalition with the far-right Freedom Party, which was launched in 1956 by former Nazi and SS Officer Anton Reinthaller. Speaking at a time when the US news agenda is dominated by the so-called migrant caravan heading for the border with Mexico, which has prompte