Europe should open to fleeing Russians

Charles Michel, President of the European Council, has urged Europe to show an “openness to those who don’t want to be instrumentalised by the Kremlin”, Qazet.az reports according to Politico.

The remarks came following Michel’s address at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday, and come ahead of a key meeting of EU ambassadors on Monday within the framework of the EU Integrated Political Crisis Response (IPCR).

In principle I think that … the European Union [should] host those who are in danger because of their political opinions. If in Russia people are in danger because of their political opinions, because they do not follow this crazy Kremlin decision to launch this war in Ukraine, we must take this into consideration.