France, Austria, Germany and the EU will hold a virtual mini-summit on the European response to the terrorist threat on Tuesday at 3 p.m., just after a meeting in Paris between Emmanuel Macron and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, the Élysée announced on Monday, November 9. .

This videoconference, organized one week after the jihadist attack in Vienna and after that in Nice and the beheading of Samuel Paty in France, in October, will bring together Emmanuel Macron and Sebastian Kurz in Paris, Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin as well as the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in Brussels.

It will be followed by a joint press conference with several of the participants, said the French presidency.

Last Monday, an Islamic State supporter opened fire in central Vienna, killing four in the first such attack in decades in Austria.

It was part of the context of a resurgence of jihadist threats since the republication in France of the cartoons of Mohammed by the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.

Strengthening border controls

Charles Michel and Clément Beaune, French Secretary of State for European Affairs, were both expected in Vienna on Monday to pay tribute to the victims of the attack.

They were also to discuss from Monday with Sebastian Kurz "the European response to terrorism, in particular the strengthening of controls at European external borders, the Schengen treaty and the fight against online hatred at European level", according to the French Embassy. in Austria.

Thursday, Emmanuel Macron has already announced that he wants to double the control forces at French borders and called for "in-depth" reform of the rules governing the Schengen area of ​​free movement in Europe, believing that the fight against illegal immigration makes part of the fight against terrorism.

The French president intends to present the first proposals in this direction to the European Council in December, with the objective "to succeed under the French presidency" in the first half of 2022.

With AFP

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