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(ANSA) - STRASBOURG - European Migration and Home Affairs Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos on Tuesday criticised the Brenner Pass barrier that Austria is building to reinforce controls of its border with Italy. "What is happening at the border between Italy and Austria is not the right solution," Avramopoulos told the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Last week Vienna threatened to shut the Brenner Pass if migrant flows increased to "uncontrollable" levels and said asylum seeker arrivals in Italy were set to double to 300,000 this year. "We need more checks on those wanting to enter Europe," Austrian President Heinz Fischer said Monday, adding that the Brenner Pass barrier will not include a wall or barbed wire. (ANSA).