MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The capacity of Europe to host new migrants has stretched thin, European Council President Donald Tusk said Sunday in the remarks before the G20 summit in the Chinese city of Hangzhou.
"In light of an unprecedented number of 65mln displaced people all over the world, the G20 community needs to scale up its share of responsibility…. It is even more important in view of the fact that the practical capabilities of Europe to host new waves of refugees, not to mention irregular economic migrants, are close to the limits," he said, as quoted in a press release issued by the European Council.
Europe is struggling to find a solution to a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The EU border agency Frontex detected over 1.83 million illegal border crossings in 2015, in contrast to some 283,000 in 2014.
