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France's Macron Toughens Immigration Stance Amid Fears of More Asylum Seekers

Jamie Dettmer

   LONDON - France's Emmanuel Macron is telling his centrist party that it
   must shed what he calls its "bourgeois" stance towards immigration and
   distinguish between deserving asylum-seekers fleeing war and economic
   migrants, saying it will otherwise drive voters into the arms of
   far-right populists.

   His warning comes amid mounting evidence that the periphery of
   south-eastern Europe could soon be faced with a new surge of
   asylum-seekers, sparking fears that the continent could be on the brink
   of a new migration crisis, roiling European politics more and adding to
   the appeal of far-right populists.

   In the past few weeks, there has been an abrupt increase in the numbers
   of refugees making the perilous sea crossing from Turkey to Greece,
   adding to overcrowding in squalid refugee camps on the Greek Aegean
   islands of Lesbos and Samos.
   

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