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Austrian soldiers steer refugees trough Spielfeld border crossing with Slovenia last weekend (Photo: Eszter Zalan)

Austria in border disputes with Slovenia and Bavaria

Austria threatened on Tuesday (27 October) to erect "technical barriers" at its border with Slovenia, and has been accused of waving migrants on to Germany's Bavaria region, which itself threatened to close its border with Austria.

Austrian interior minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner visited Spielfeld, the village where thousands of migrants have been entering Austria from Slovenia recently.

She said the government would take "spec...

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