EU must take in Afghans under ‘immediate threat’: official

BRUSSELS: EU countries must take in Afghans under ‘immediate threat’, especially women and girls, the European commissioner for home affairs said on Wednesday.

“We should not wait until people are at our external border. We need to help them before that. And it’s important that we also help those in immediate threat to be resettled to EU member states,” Ylva Johansson said before participating in an emergency videolink meeting of EU interior ministers.