Exclusive: Josep Borrell calls for European unity in face of Ukraine war, US-China competition and rise of global south

Migration could be “a dissolving force for the European Union” due to deep cultural differences between European countries and their long-term inability to reach a common policy, the EU’s most senior diplomat has said.

Although Russia will try to fan the flames on migration inside Europe, Josep Borrell denied that the war in Ukraine itself was contributing to the crisis, which he described as a decades-old problem fuelled by wars and poverty in departure countries.

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