Austria also wants the EU to make savings

munich - Austria thinks that the EU budget should go down considerably after the Brexit. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz argued Thursday at a congress of the European People's Party in Munich that the European Union lost 13 percent of its population after Britain left. Then at a managerial level in the EU austerity measures are appropriate. That is also the Dutch position.

At the same time, Kurz argued for increasing the contribution to important common EU projects. He is thinking in the first place of the protection of the external borders. Only if strict security comes there can the fundamental civil rights in the EU, including free travel without passport checks, be defended, said the Austrian head of government.

Kurz sharply condemned the budgetary plans of the responsible EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger for the period 2021-2027. He is annoyed that despite the shrinking of the EU due to the Brexit, in the years that followed the expenditure on the household book went up. Oettinger said in Munich to assume that there is a compromise in March 2019. 'I am optimistic that there is a solution', Kurz replied.

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