EU Helpers reported that the border inspections have started and will continue for ten days.

Gerhard Karner, Austria's interior minister, has reaffirmed the choice.

According to Austria's Ministry of the Interior, border checks on the Austrian-Slovak border are necessary in order to prevent the smuggling mafia from immediately rerouting its routes towards this nation; otherwise, the smuggling mafia may find an alternate route through Slovakia to Austria.

Prime Minister of Slovakia Ludovit Odor opposed such a move while emphasizing the necessity for a European-wide solution to the migrant situation.

According to data from the Interior Ministry, Slovakia registered 39.688 migrants overall from the start of the year through October 1. This is an increase of 11% over the same period last year.

Additionally, police officers detained 17,529 foreign nationals in total in the first seven months of this year, an increase of 15,611 foreign nationals held compared to the numbers from the same period in 2022. The number was over 30,000 as of September 3.

To reduce the growing number of migrants using Slovakia as a transit country, authorities in Slovakia recently declared that they will reinstate border controls at the border with Hungary.

Roberto Fico, the winner of the Slovakian election, recently opined that Hungary border controls should be reinstated.

Such a step, in his opinion, is necessary to prevent illegal immigrants from entering Slovakia and moving farther into the Union.

The Slovak police force is short by about 2,000 policemen, and the border is roughly four times longer than the Hungarian-Serbian border, according to a report by Balkan Insight. Stefa Hamran, the police chief, deemed the situation on the Serbian-Hungarian border urgent.