Media mentions – Internal responses to the refugee crisis
The message to the EU is: do you want to hit me? I am going to stop protecting your borders. But this is false, Lukashenka never protected the borders.
The EU will need to think hard about its approach to refugees, who will not stop trying to get to Europe, Varma said
We Europeans have been in that country for 20 years, of course we have a moral responsibility, especially for the people who are fleeing this new Taliban regime
Jana Puglierin comments on Europe’s fear of mass immigration from Afghanistan
The situation is a huge risk for Turkey, there is no doubt. Iran will also stand to lose if the Taliban returns to its old ways and provides a safe haven [ for Islamist extremists]..
Asli Aydintasbas comments on how the Taliban takeover leaves Iran and Turkey fearing a huge refugee influx
Morocco has seen the EU’s reaction, with which it had not counted on, and had to close the border to not risk worsening relations, not with Spain but, with Brussels
José Ignacio Torreblanca comments on the EU’s backing in the Spanish-Moroccan crisis
The European focus increasingly narrowed in on the security and migration challenges with decreasing self-belief in any ability to push the region’s political order in a more positive direction
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