Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/16/2016

Austria has tightened its border controls even further, instituting comprehensive checks along its border with Slovenia and temporarily suspending its compliance with the Schengen Agreement. Meanwhile, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is proposing to finance measures that deal with the “refugee” crisis by imposing a new petrol tax on EU member states. And the Jewish Agency in Italy reports that 353 Italian Jews emigrated to Israel last year, which according to some sources is more than 1% of the Jewish population in Italy, while others say 0.1%.

In other news, gunmen wearing turbans attacked a major hotel in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, killing an undetermined number of people and taking hostages. The kinetic activists who staged the attack are reportedly affiliated with Al Qaeda.…