Brenner Pass Modena. It is one of the most important routes of north-south connections in Europe. After the signing of the Schengen Agreement in 1992 and Austria's subsequent entry into the European Union in 1995, customs and immigration posts at Brenner Pass were removed in 1997. However, Austria reinstituted border checks in 2015 as a response to the European migrant crisis. In April 2016, Austria announced it would build a 370-meter long fence at the Pass but clarify that "it would be used only to "channel" people and was not a barrier." The Europabrücke ("Europe Bridge"), located roughly halfway between Innsbruck and
Wendy Brenner Wendy Brenner Wendy Brenner is an American author and professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Brenner is the author of two books, the first of which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her short stories and essays have appeared in such magazines as "Allure", "Seventeen", "Travel & Leisure", "The Oxford American", "The Sun (magazine)", "Ploughshares", and "Mississippi Review", and have been anthologized in "The Best American Essays", "Best American Magazine Writing", and "New Stories From the South", as well as other anthologies. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts