UN Refugee Official Blasts EU Over Migrant ‘Travel Warning’

A top U.N. refugee official has criticized European Union leaders for calling on migrants not to come to Europe. Speaking to reporters Friday in Brussels, UNHCR Europe bureau director Vincent Cochetel said that 91 percent of migrants arriving in Greece from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq are fleeing conflict zones and not looking for work. "The inconvenient truth is that refugees are still coming to Europe because the wars in the neighborhood of Europe are not solved. I know there is...

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