Summary
After decades of spending on infrastructure to develop poorer parts of Europe, the European Union must invest in migrants to avert a "nuclear bomb" of civil unrest, a top EU official said.
The EU asylum system came close to collapsing in 2015 as a million refugees and migrants arrived by boat, overwhelming Greece and Italy.
European Union interior ministers are now grappling with the politically charged issue of reforming the bloc's asylum system.
Cre?u, who oversees the cohesion policy, highlighted recent investments on the frontlines of Europe's migrant crisis -- from the purchase of two rescue boats for Italian authorities to a support network for mayors of cities wrestling with migration.
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