Austria announces it will ban Islamic veils and force migrants to sign "integration contracts"

Christian Kerr said ‘the full-face veil will be banned in public spaces’ as he announced a raft of new plans to be implemented over the next 18 months.

A new 35-page document also says that migrants granted the right to stay in Austria will be forced to sign an ‘integration contract’ and a ‘statement of values’.

There was no specific ban on headscarfs for civil servants, backed by the far right, but the guidance insists employees ‘present themselves as religiously neutral’.
The document includes details on how Austria will beef up its security services.