The Head of the European Union Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Mr Michel Arrion said European countries need more migrants to offset their ageing and declining population.
Arrion said member states of the European Union believe in the possibility of improving the number of regular migrants but the root causes of irregular migration must be addressed.
“There are terrible stories of migrants and criminal networks here in Nigeria and in Europe,” the envoy told journalists yesterday in Abuja during a briefing on the EU’s 60th Anniversary.
“We need police cooperation between Italy and Libya; Spain and Nigeria for bilateral agreements to tackle the growing networks of human traffickers.”
