Refugee Crisis Threatens European Unity, UN Official Says

A senior United Nations official warned that Europe's hardening attitude toward refugees and migrants is threatening the unity of the European alliance. Peter Sutherland, the U.N. secretary-general's special representative for international migration, said he is alarmed at the growing hostility and xenophobic sentiments European politicians have expressed about people fleeing war and persecution. The nationalistic and racist slogans heard since refugees began sweeping across...

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