(Politico) European countries should screen Afghan refugees upon entry into the bloc to mitigate security risks, the EU’s top home affairs official said Thursday.
Europe “needs to make sure that we do not take in people that could pose a security threat towards the European Union,” said Ylva Johansson, the European Union’s home affairs commissioner in charge of migration and security issues.
“One person can be a security threat,” she said.
The commissioner was speaking to POLITICO just hours before explosions and gunshots outside Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport killed several U.S. military personnel and dozens of Afghans. Western security officials had warned repeatedly about the threat of terror attacks in Kabul in the past days.
