A poor European response to an unprecedented influx of migrants is stirring an extremist backlash, according to participants in POLITICO’s Transatlantic Caucus, who urged EU leaders to take stronger, long-term measures to address the crisis at this week’s summit in Brussels.
The continuing tide of new arrivals — 710,000 have been detected so far this year — and a rise of anti-immigrant populism have overtaken Vladimir Putin and the euro crisis as the biggest challenges for Europe since our first caucus in June.
The vast majority of the more than 100 diplomats, politicians and advisers who took part in the third POLITICO …read more
Source: European Voice
