SECTORAL POLICIES / Migration

Afghanistan crisis, Member States will seek to balance humanitarian obligations and security requirements in EU

Brussels, 30/08/2021 (Agence Europe)

On Tuesday 31 August, the EU Ministers of Home Affairs and Schengen associated countries will try to combine humanitarian obligations for Afghans fleeing their country with security requirements at the EU’s external borders and within the EU.

The latest draft declaration, dated 30 August and discussed the same day by the Member States’ ambassadors to the EU, thus continued to prioritise assistance to Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries, particularly in receiving people fleeing the...