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      Austria: EU Commissioner visits refugee camp deemed '"inhumane" by the UN01:31

      Austria: EU Commissioner visits refugee camp deemed '"inhumane" by the UN

      Austria, Traiskirchen
      Politics
      September 7, 2015 at 11:47 GMT +00:00 · Published

      The European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos and Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner visited a refugee camp in Traiskirchen, Monday, before holding a joint-press conference.

      The Traiskirchen refugee camp in Austria's Baden district had to stop accepting new arrivals last month after the United Nations and human rights organisations including Amnesty International criticised conditions at the camp as "dangerous and imhumane."

      The Traiskirchen camp was built to house around 1,800 asylum seekers, but was overcrowded with around 4,000 people at the camp, forcing almost 1,500 people to sleep in the open and in tents outdoors.

      Austria: EU Commissioner visits refugee camp deemed '"inhumane" by the UN01:31
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      The European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos and Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner visited a refugee camp in Traiskirchen, Monday, before holding a joint-press conference.

      The Traiskirchen refugee camp in Austria's Baden district had to stop accepting new arrivals last month after the United Nations and human rights organisations including Amnesty International criticised conditions at the camp as "dangerous and imhumane."

      The Traiskirchen camp was built to house around 1,800 asylum seekers, but was overcrowded with around 4,000 people at the camp, forcing almost 1,500 people to sleep in the open and in tents outdoors.

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