- Title: 348 AT Maas Schallenberg meet
- Date: 18th June 2020
- Description:Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg meets German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas in Vienna After a three-month break caused by coronavirus crisis, the Austrian and the German FMs resume personal talks today. The Austrian Minister receives his German counterpart Heiko Maas for a working meeting and a presser, as the Foreign Ministry announced yesterday. Later, FM Maas is schedulled to meet with the Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen The focus of the “neighborhood discussion” will be on German-Austrian cooperation in times of the global health crisis and the priorities of the upcoming German EU Council Presidency with July 1st, this was said in the press conference. Also relevant: Austria announced today that, by Sunday, the frontiers opening and the cutting of the corona relevant measures will be also valid for Spain. In the last days, Alexander Schallenberg met his counterparts from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia, as well as he exchanged ideas with his counterparts from Switzerland and Liechtenstein . The Austrian foreign minister will continue to travel next week, to Slovakia, later this month a meeting with the Italian foreign minister Luigi Di Maio is planned. Shotlist Shot inside offices of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna - MS AT FM Alexander Schallenberg and German FM Heiko Maas walk in - WS Schallenberg and Maas at speakers panel, being introduced by female voice - CU Schallenberg - SOUNDBITE- (German) Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg: "We both agree. Restoring travel freedom on this continent is a major issue. Since Tuesday we have open borders and the lifting of all covid-relevant restrictions with most of the European continent." -TC 00:46 "And I am therefore pleased to announce that we will also lift the travel restrictions relevant to Spain with COVID as of Sunday. -TC 00:59 We also have a big issue and what unites us is the focus not on the neighborhood, but on overcoming the pandemic , In overcoming the health crisis, we have to gradually transition to overcoming the economic crisis, that is the new focus in the coming months, so the partnership with Germany is very important. -TC01:24 A big issue, as we discussed, is the opening to third countries. A big hurdle will be the freedom of travel that we have to overcome here. An interest that this should be coordinated as closely as possible, as also suggested by the EU Commission. The major foreign policy crises were also discussed: Libya, the Middle East. -CU Maas -SOUNDBITE (German) Heiko Maas: "Although we only meet physically for the first time, we have had very, very close contact in the past weeks and months, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you very much for being able to deal with all of the issues we were concerned with, especially the border traffic, in always particularly close contact and that it was always possible to find unbureaucratic solutions. -TC 01:24 The coordinated return to a normal situation that we are in now also presents us with a number of challenges, particularly when it comes to travel and tourism. -TC02:25 With 1st of July we will take over the relay from Croatia, and our motto of the EU presidency is "Making Europe together strong again", I think this is what we all must do right now. We want to transform Europa into more green, social, digital, innovativ , these are our main points of the presidency we will pursue.
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:18/06/2020
- Decade: 2020s