{"id":5837,"date":"2023-04-11T06:17:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T06:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/austria-to-extend-checks\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T06:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T06:19:53","slug":"austria-to-extend-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/austria-to-extend-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria to extend checks at Hungarian, Slovenian borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VIENNA (Reuters) &#8211;     Austria plans to extend checks at its borders with Slovenia and Hungary by another six months from May 11, when the current six-month suspension of free travel over those boundaries expires, Interior Minister Gerhard Karner told ORF radio on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will inform the European Commission in the coming days that we will have to extend these border checks,&#8221; Karner said, adding that the continued suspension of the Schengen area&#8217;s free-travel rules at those boundaries was necessary in order to fight illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Francois Murphy; Editing by Christopher Cushing)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/austria-to-extend-checks\/file-photo-austrian-police-officers-attend-an-exercise-to-prevent\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3A05K-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3A05K-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIENNA (Reuters) &#8211; Austria plans to extend checks at its borders with Slovenia and Hungary by another six months from May 11, when the current six-month suspension of free travel over those boundaries expires, Interior Minister Gerhard Karner told ORF radio on Tuesday. &#8220;We will inform the European Commission in the coming days that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3A05K-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5839,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions\/5839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}