Germany warns EU against setting target of Afghan refugees

Interior minister says pull-effect' could risk sparking fresh European migration crisis

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Germany has warned fellow EU governments against following the UK's lead in setting a target number of refugees from Afghanistan to be resettled in the union, claiming it will act as a pull-factor.

Horst Seehofer, the German interior minister, said that despite the reluctance of countries such as Austria there should be a common EU asylum policy but that the union should not risk a new migration crisis.