EU First Vice-President Frans Timmermans recalls his visit to Kos and conversations with migrants
- 9 years ago
EU Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans has been recounting his experience of meeting migrants and discussing their plight.
He has been talking to Euronews special correspondent Stefan Grobe in The Global Conversation which will be shown on Euronews on Wednesday evening.
“I spoke to families of refugees on the island of Kos in Greece, and they were telling me: ‘Hey, I was living in the refugee camp in Lebanon; I was doing OK but after two years I ran out of my money, my savings have been spent, I want to feed my children, I can’t feed them there, that is why I want to take them to Germany to feed them there.’ Would you do anything else? I would do exactly the same as a father if I needed to do that, you know,” he recalled.
But what of security issues that could arise from migrants crossing borders? Stefan Groebe put this point to the First Vice-President.
“The US Department of Homeland Security has estimated that there are roughly 4000 Islamic militants who have in
He has been talking to Euronews special correspondent Stefan Grobe in The Global Conversation which will be shown on Euronews on Wednesday evening.
“I spoke to families of refugees on the island of Kos in Greece, and they were telling me: ‘Hey, I was living in the refugee camp in Lebanon; I was doing OK but after two years I ran out of my money, my savings have been spent, I want to feed my children, I can’t feed them there, that is why I want to take them to Germany to feed them there.’ Would you do anything else? I would do exactly the same as a father if I needed to do that, you know,” he recalled.
But what of security issues that could arise from migrants crossing borders? Stefan Groebe put this point to the First Vice-President.
“The US Department of Homeland Security has estimated that there are roughly 4000 Islamic militants who have in