(Axios) Thousands of Afghans are waiting at U.S. bases in Germany, Italy and Spain — and those countries want to know they will end up in the U.S. before they commit to resettling additional Afghan refugees.
The big picture: EU leaders are desperate to avoid a repeat of the migrant crisis ignited by the Syrian civil war, which drove a record 1.3 million people to seek asylum in Europe in 2015 alone.
“They really have a lot of concerns,” European Commissioner of Home Affairs Ylva Johansson told Axios in an interview. “First they would like to know if these people they are hosting really will go to the U.S. before they answer me on how much they can do,” Johansson said.
