US Must Help Europe Address Refugee Crisis ‘As Much as Necessary’ - Kerry

The US should provide any necessary assistance to tackle the migrant crisis in Europe.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Europe is facing a grave threat from the migrant crisis confronting it and the United States should provide any necessary assistance to tackle the crisis, US Secretary of State John Kerry said in a testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.

"Europe is deeply threatened by what is going on [refugee crisis]," Kerry stated. "Different border measures have been taken. It is an imperative of the United States to help Europe as much as necessary."

Moreover, Kerry thinks that European nations would suffer a negative political impact from the inflow of another million refugees coming to the continent.

"I think that [another one million refugees] would have a profoundly negative dynamic," Kerry stated. He added that "you really can’t overstate the impact, politically, of the potential of another million refugees."

The European Union is currently struggling to manage a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people fleeing conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The EU border agency Frontex recorded more than 1.8 million illegal border crossings in the EU in 2015.