Geneva (AFP) - Attitudes towards migrants in Europe "are more emotional than rational", with denial about the realities of migration helping fuel the current crisis, the head of the UN's refugee agency, Antonio Guterres, said Thursday.
In an interview with AFP, Guterres raised further alarm about the scale of the migrant crisis, calling for a Europe-wide response, "as no country can solve it by itself."
But he said efforts to forge a unified approach to the problem have been undermined by public attitudes that are, at times, irrationally anti-immigrant.
"I think that the discussions about migration in Europe are discussions that are more emotional than rational," Guterres said at the UNHCR headquarters in Geneva.
"Migration is part of the solution to European problems," he said, pointing to the low fertility rates affecting most European countries and the fact that immigrants often do jobs that local people don't want. ...
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