Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi issued a warning about Afghan immigration. In a televised address he stated that Europe may have to deal with a large inflow of migrants from Afghanistan after the pull-out of US and NATO troops.
“It is foreseeable that the withdrawal from Afghanistan will lead to an increase in immigration from that country of an as yet unknown quantity, but we all know it will be big,” he said.
“So we need even more to be all together in tackling this problem,” Draghi said, calling for EU unity ahead of a June 24-25 summit in Brussels.
He urged the EU to focus on “containment” and the repatriation of illegal migrants, but also on legal migration and on aid to migrants’ countries of origin.
He criticised the bloc for neglecting the issue of migration, saying that it has not formally been on the agenda of EU summits for the past three years.
Turning to Italy — one of the EU countries most exposed to the inflow of migrants — Draghi called for greater national efforts on integration.
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