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Europe's Reducing Migrant Flows Unable to Solve Refugee Crisis

© AFP 2023A translator shows documents to Afghan migrants during a roam by members of The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA), at the Jules Ferry reception centre near the Jungle migrant camp in Calais, on January 14, 2016.
A translator shows documents to Afghan migrants during a roam by members of The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA), at the Jules Ferry reception centre near the Jungle migrant camp in Calais, on January 14, 2016. - Sputnik International
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UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said that the majority of refugees come to Europe from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, the areas heavily affected by internal conflicts, as well as extremist groups.

Migrants queue in the compound outside the Berlin Office of Health and Social Affairs (LAGESO) as they wait to register in Berlin, Germany, October 12, 2015 - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The widespread European policy aimed at the reduction of migrant flows is unable to solve the ongoing migrant crisis, UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told Sputnik on Friday.

"It is not the question of reducing flows, it is the question of managing the situation, when people arrive at the shores of Europe. That is where Europe has failed," Fleming said.

The majority of refugees come to Europe from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, the areas heavily affected by internal conflicts, as well as extremist groups, she stressed.

"It is not the refugees that are the problem — the problem is the bombs that are falling on their houses," the UNHCR spokeswoman said.

Migrants and refugees crowd in a line as they wait for their registration at central registration center for refugees and asylum seekers LaGeSo (Landesamt fuer Gesundheit und Soziales - State Office for Health and Social Affairs) in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. - Sputnik International
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The European Union is currently struggling to manage a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people leaving conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa for Europe.

Earlier this week, a number of EU states, particularly those from the Western Balkans, adopted a number of refugee managing policies, including military deployment on the state borders, or introducing a quota on migrant intake.

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