Brussels-Sana
European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson today called on EU countries to speed up their processes to receive Afghan refugees on their soil and provide additional legal avenues for their arrival in Europe.
And the AFP quoted Johansson as saying, at the conclusion of a video summit of European interior ministers, that it is important to help those under imminent threat, especially women, to settle in the European Union, after the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital, Kabul, and the entire country.
Johansson added: While we continue our work to confront the dangers of illegal immigration, we also need to provide legal, safe and orderly channels for stability in the European Union, warning against the consequences of some terrorists surreptitiously entering the European Union.
The Commissioner for Foreign Policy and Security in the European Union Josep Borrell yesterday expressed the Union's readiness to deal with the Taliban, even if it did not recognize them as the legitimate rulers of the country.
It is noteworthy that the developments of events in Afghanistan accelerated with the entry of the Taliban movement, the capital, Kabul, the day before yesterday, and its control of most government institutions, amid chaos in the city's airport, as a result of thousands of people crowding and rushing on the runway to leave the country.