High time for a new European refugee policy

After renewed storming of the Spanish enclave of Melilla by African refugees, the left-wing daily paper calls for a fresh strategy for dealing with African migrants: "Where would European football be without players from Africa or other continents? ... When it suits Europe, Africans are welcome and passed off as Europeans. When it does not, they are pushed up against border fences with guns, treated like dirt in deportation centres and abandoned to drown in the sea. People like to portray illegal immigration of Africans to Europe as human trafficking. ... If Europe wants a proper way of handling this situation it has to start by talking with the migrants. Negotiations on European migration and refugee policy must be carried out with migrants' associations here and in the transit countries, as well as with social groups and economic associations in the countries of origin, not just with the governments these people are trying to get away from."

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