Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner has announced that Austria is ready to remove borders for air traffic from Bulgaria and Romania. The land borders will retain their current status, as Bulgaria and Romania will not be officially Schengen members. This Austrian proposal comes with three conditions – hosting refugees from Syria and Afghanistan in both countries, a three-fold increase in Frontex presence in Bulgaria and intensified controls at the Romanian-Bulgarian and Romanian-Hungarian borders. Reactions to the proposal are very different in Romania and Bulgaria.