PRAQUE, July 12 — The EU must brace for new waves of migrants forced to uproot because of the food crisis aggravated by the war in Ukraine, the bloc’s border agency chief warned yesterday.
While Ukrainian refugees were being handled well, “we have to prepare also for refugees coming from other areas because of the food security,” the interim executive director of the Frontex agency Aija Kalnaja said.
She noted in particular that “grain transport from Ukraine is hampered, and that will create waves of migration”.
Kalnaja was speaking as she arrived in Prague for a meeting of EU interior ministers that had been expanded to also include the ministers from non-EU countries Ukraine and Moldova.
