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Germany warns of repeat of 2015 EU migration chaos

Europe Materials 9 October 2019 03:22 (UTC +04:00)
Germany warned on Tuesday of a repeat of the chaotic influx of migrants that caught the European Union unprepared in 2015
Germany warns of repeat of 2015 EU migration chaos

Germany warned on Tuesday of a repeat of the chaotic influx of migrants that caught the European Union unprepared in 2015, as Greece and Cyprus sounded the alarm over a resurgence of arrivals from neighboring Turkey, Trend reports citing Reuters.

EU ministers met to discuss migration as Greece has again become the main gateway to Europe for people fleeing wars and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, with U.N. data showing nearly 45,600 arrivals by sea so far this year.

“If we leave all the countries on the EU’s external border (to fend for themselves), there will never be a common European asylum policy,” German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said.

“And if there is no common European asylum policy, there is a danger that uncontrolled immigration will once again take place, throughout Europe. We have seen this before and I do not want it to happen again,” he told reporters in Luxembourg.

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