Published: November 6th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

In Austria, he was Finance Minister – in Brussels, he is supposed to take care of internal security and migration: Austrian ÖVP politician Magnus Brunner. He lacks the experience for this, argued a number of MEPs before Brunner’s hearing in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE). As Austria takes a tough stance on migration issues, his liberal stance was also called into question.