Austria's far-right FPÖ is still adjusting to its new role in government, moderating its language but not its positions. The party's anti-immigrant stance still seems to resonate with many people in the country.
The bill would allow authorities to seize refugees' cash and phones, as well as speed up deportations. The government said the harsher measures were designed to fight illegal migration and asylum abuse.
Germany's interior minister has defended a request to continue checks by accusing the EU of failing to protect its external borders. Germany is one of six countries that reimposed controls in the visa-free Schengen zone.
A controversial theater piece about two refugees, one from Syria and one "from Africa," has been canceled hours before its public premiere. But the government-commissioned play has been seen by thousands of children.
The conservative government attempted to cut benefits to asylum seekers, but the Constitutional Court has ruled that this is unconstitutional.
Asylum seekers in Austria are helping the poor and homeless in Vienna by working as volunteers for the "Wiener Tafel" project, the oldest food bank in the country.
The EU migrant redistribution scheme "isn't working," Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said while welcoming Hungary's Viktor Orban in Vienna. The two leaders called for opposition to illegal migration to Europe.
The head of Austria's nationalist Freedom Party wants to place refugees in army barracks. Critics are appalled. But this isn't the first time the FPÖ has made headlines with populist campaigns.
The Austrian government is tightening its stance on migrants. Human Rights Watch has reported about the dangers facing female migrants on the Island of Lesbos and on the occasion of International Migrants Day, look at migration to Europe in numbers.
Meeting in Prague, right-wing leaders from across Europe have praised Austria's anti-immigration party joining the new coalition government. The politicians are seeking to build cooperation among populists.
The right-wing government plans to introduce new measures that will greatly reduce benefits for migrants and refugees. Asylum seekers are to receive less than half of what they currently receive from the government.
New patrols on cargo trains travelling the Brenner Pass, where Italy meets the Austrian border, will check for undocumented migrants. Migrants often use trains to attempt to cross from Italy to Austria.