Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said his first visit to a refugee camp had changed his perspectives on the issue but also argued it would still be mistaken to dismiss people’s concerns about migration. The Taoiseach visited the Mai Aini refugee camp close to Ethiopia’s border with Eritrea on the last day of his three-day visit to Ethiopia. We read about refugee camps, we see them on TV, it’s only when you can be in a place like that that you can understand,” he told reporters. The biggest political mistake some people made across Europe is to be dismissive of people who have concerns about migration. Those are the policies that work in the long term.”'Recalibrated perspective'During his visit, the Taoiseach met newly-arrived refugees from Eritrea as well as those who have been there for some years.

Source: Ethiopian News January 12, 2019 06:00 UTC