The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, called, on Wednesday 10 November, for the EU to stop the “race to the bottom” in the reception of asylum seekers, judging the European policy in this area “mixed” and expressing concern about “the practices of some Member States”.
The Italian was speaking to MEPs during a debate on the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Refugee Convention. A debate strongly influenced by the current situation in Poland and on the...