EU lax on refugees, says former PM
The EU has done too little to prevent climate change and create a joint immigration and asylum policy, former Dutch prime minister Ruud Lubbers said in a speech to church groups on Sunday.
While Spain took on a high proportion of asylum seekers, the Netherlands was ‘practically the champion at sending them away’, ANP reported Lubbers as saying.
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