Austria will step up deportations of migrants and is adding Morocco, Algeria and other states to a list of countries it deems safe, enabling it to send people back there more quickly, government ministries said on Sunday.
Austria and neighboring Germany threw open their borders in September to hundreds of thousands of people who poured into Europe, many of them fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Despite an initial outpouring of sympathy for the migrants, public concern about the influx have fueled a rise in support for the far right in Austria, and opposition to the coalition government of Social Democrats and conservatives has grown.