Austria’s plans to reimpose border control at the Brennar Pass could be considered as another both concrete and symbolic move towards a weaker European cooperation within the increasingly complicated solution to the migration crisis, according to an blog article by EUROPEUM analyst Alexandr Lagazzi.

“Given both Italy’s and the (European) Commission’s concerned comments, such Austrian measures could worsen both the situation on the heavily crossed border and the economic and political relations between the two sides of the Alps,” the analysis states.

The full article can be read here.