Immigration expert Gerald Knaus of the European Stability Initiative on ZiB2, the nightly news program of the Austrian network ORF, explains that despite the distinctly anti-refugee and anti-immigrant rhetorical posture of the governments of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz from 2017-2021 (with a seven-month interruption in 2019-2020) that Austria a very solid record in sticking to the rule of law in processing asylum applications.