Austria offers to send its soldiers to the Balkans or North Africa to help control the flow of migrants to Europe.
Austrian Defense Ministers Mario Kunasek and Interior Herbert Kickl told reporters today that troops could also be deployed along the European Union's external borders through bilateral agreements for "assistance missions" or in support of Frontex, the European border protection agency.
The two ministers would like army-police cooperation to be a model for guarding the external borders of the European Union.
Several hundred soldiers are currently assisting the Austrian police in controlling the borders with Slovenia, Hungary and Italy.
Kikl said they have been helping since 2016 because police forces are overstretched due to a lack of control of Europe's external borders.
"We want to do it differently," Kikl said.
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