'It's not possible to send people back to Afghanistan in these days. It's not safe,' European Union Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said.
Applications from Afghans for asylum climbed roughly 30 percent since February when the United States announced it would be pulling troops out of Afghanistan. According to the's asylum office, over 4,648 applications were submitted in May; about half tend to be successful.
"It's important that we can help these people in Afghanistan, when possible, to return to their homes," EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said."We also need to help neighboring countries and support Afghanis and these neighboring countries in the region."Afghans make up the second-largest group to seek asylum in the European Union since 2015. Above, Afghan migrants protest the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, on the Greek island of Lesbos on August 16, 2021.
Speaking after a videoconference with EU interior ministers, she said that Europe"should not wait until people stand at our external border. We need to help them before that. It's also important that we help those under immediate threat to be resettled to EU member states." The arrival of well over a million migrants in 2015, mostly from Syria and Iraq, sparked one of the 27-nation EU's biggest crises as nations bickered over how best to manage the influx. The infighting continues today, and a new wave of migrants from Afghanistan is likely to exacerbate tensions.
Austria's interior minister called Wednesday for"deportation centers" to be built in countries neighboring Afghanistan.
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