The scenario on the Austrian-Hungarian border in Burgenland continues to return to a head. People touring from Hungary are in particular affected, together with commuters from Sopron (Ödenburg) to Austria.
On Tuesday, commuter site visitors was once limited within the border house of Sankt Margarethen (Szentmargitbánya), and from Wednesday it’ll now not be imaginable to pressure to Austria by way of Schattendorf (Somfalva), as development paintings for a pedestrian zone has begun there. This implies that hundreds of Hungarian commuters must take a detour on a daily basis. The mayor of Sopron, Ciprián Farkas, has written an open letter to the Hungarian overseas minister, Péter Szijjártó, on behalf of the employees of Sopron.
Commuter site visitors from Hungary to Austria is a problem for lots of Burgenland border communities, in keeping with Austrian officers. A lot of measures had been taken not too long ago to cut back thru site visitors within the villages, representatives of the communities involved mentioned. In Schattendorf (Somfalva), the one highway resulting in the border changed into a pedestrian zone on March 1, whilst commuter site visitors has additionally been limited in St. Margarethen (Szentmargitbánya) since Feb. 28. These measures are inflicting a stir on each side of the border.
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On Wednesday, the Schattendorf (Somfalva) – Ágfalva (Agendorf) border crossing, used day-to-day by means of hundreds of Hungarian commuters, was once closed to automobiles. It will now be utterly closed for 3 months, and then simplest folks from Schattendorf and Ágfalva will be capable of go the border, who must purchase a allow for 160 euros. “We would like to reimburse this in the form of vouchers,” stressed out Thomas Hoffmann, SPÖ mayor of Schattendorf. The baby-kisser additionally promised to inspect how now not simplest locals, but in addition commuters to Schattendorf and citizens of the neighboring municipalities of Loipersbach (Lépesfalva) and Baumgarten (Sopronkertes) may also be incorporated within the exceptions.
Since Tuesday, commuter site visitors within the house of St. Margarethen (Szentmargitbánya) has additionally been limited. Only those that commute from the Austrian facet of the border to Rust, St. Margarethen and the encircling cities of Mörbisch am See (Fertőmeggyes), Oggau (Oka), Oslip (Oszlop), Schützen am Gebirge (Sérc) are allowed to make use of the street to Hungary. According to Heinrich Dorner, SPÖ regional shipping councilor within the regional executive, the site visitors from St. Margarethen to Eisenstadt (Kismarton) needed to be decreased to at least one 3rd of the present stage. The restriction could also be supposed to shift commuter site visitors to different roads, the regional councilor advised ORF Burgenland.
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Both selections basically impact the folk in and round Sopron, and the mayor of the Hungarian town, Ciprián Farkas, is confused by means of what is going on. Speaking to ORF, the mayor mentioned that the congestion of Burgenland’s municipalities was once just a pretext for the closures, which aren’t simplest unfavourable to commuters from Hungary, but in addition contradict the theory of the Schengen border machine.
Austria has acted in an incomprehensible, unfair, unfriendly and unpredictable method at those small border crossings,
mentioned Ciprián Farkas.
Austria wishes Hungarian visitor staff, this has been emphasised repeatedly and in lots of puts, he mentioned. We can discuss site visitors restrictions right here, however principally a border closure has taken position, as only a few individuals are allowed to go those borders legally, the mayor added.
Neither town of Sopron nor the Hungarian police have gained any details about what is going to occur on the Hungarian borders,
he mentioned. “We are powerless because it is an Austrian measure on Austrian territory, so we can only report the problem.” The mayor of Sopron believes that it’s Austria this is making the expanding site visitors within the settlements worse by means of refusing to enforce shipping infrastructure enhancements, corresponding to the development of the Hungarian M85 highway hyperlink to the A3 highway.
Ciprián Farkas has appealed to Hungary’s Foreign Minister, Péter Szijjártó, to touch his Austrian counterpart with the intention to unravel the location.
This area bureaucracy a solidarity, each traditionally and economically (…) I’m satisfied that those measures additionally violate the basic freedoms of the European Union, specifically the basic proper to loose motion and loose motion of staff,
mentioned the mayor in his open letter.
Hungary Today has additionally contacted the Province of Burgenland in this subject, however has now not gained a reaction as of the e-newsletter of this newsletter.
Reporting by means of Enikő Enzsöl. Via Ungarn Heute and cyberpress.hu, Featured Photo: Facebook Ciprián Farkas
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