奧地利隨時準備實施新的邊界控制措施

Austria said Tuesday it is ready to implement unspecified border protections if Germany enacts a set of stricter immigration controls its government announced Monday.

An Austrian government statement said it is "prepared in particular to take measures to protect our southern borders," which include those with Italy and Slovenia.

Germany's ruling coalition has been divided on the issue of immigration, with Chancellor Angela Merkel's party advocating a more welcoming stance while her Bavarian coalition partner argued for stricter controls over who is allowed into the country.

The divide threatened to push Merkel to seek a new coalition or call new elections. But after hours of negotiations, she and Christian Social Union leader and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer both said they had agreed on a plan that worked for both sides.

The agreement calls for establishing transit centers to hold asylum-seekers while their cases are evaluated. If they are found to have already applied for asylum in a different European Union country they would be sent back to that country, or to Austria, pending agreement with the Austrian government.奧地利星期二說，如果德國政府實施星期一宣佈的更嚴格的移民限制，奧地利也準備採取保護邊界的措施。奧地利沒有具體說明什麼樣的措施。

奧地利政府的一份聲明說，它準備採取邊界保護措施，尤其是在南部邊界。奧地利南部與意大利和斯洛文尼亞接壤。

德國的執政聯盟在移民問題上存在內部分歧。默克爾的政黨主張對移民採取更歡迎的立場，但是巴伐利亞的聯盟夥伴提出，應該對允許什麼人進入德國採取更嚴格的限制。

這個分歧一度看來要迫使默克爾試圖組成新的執政聯盟，或宣佈提前舉行大選。但是經過數小時的談判後，默克爾和基督教社會聯盟領導人、內政部長澤霍夫說，他們就一項雙方都可接受的協議達成了一致。

根據這項協議，要設立一些中轉中心，在對庇護尋求者進行甄別的時候臨時把他們安置在那裏。如果發現有人已經在歐盟其它國家申請庇護，就將他們送到申請國，或送去奧地利，不過能否送去奧地利還取決於能否與奧地利政府達成協議。