"It is urgent to respond collectively to these migratory flows.
From about 1975, migratory flows were greatly modified, the most immediate cause being economic.
The Spanish government acted as a partner with West African countries to help stop criminal gangs, easing the migratory flows.
Emergency government meetings are being held to ensure there is 'upstream management of illegal migratory flows.' Excuse me?
"No country can solve migratory flows by itself," said Michele Cercone, a spokesman for Europe's home affairs commissioner.
The process included the development of new trade routes and vast migratory flows to what Europeans termed a New World.
We must also take forward proposals to provide legal routes for third country nationals who want to come and work in Europe, so we can control migratory flows.
"At that moment," says Michel, "I had a vision of migratory flows crisscrossing Europe like blood vessels; Muslims appeared as clots which were only slowly reabsorbed".
We must also do much more to demand reform from the countries that many migrants flee, to tackle the root causes of migratory flows.
Located at the crossroads of migratory flows from the Middle East, Asia, the Caucasus and increasingly Africa, it has problems of its own.
The largest human migrations today are internal to nation-states; these can be sizable in rapidly increasing populations with large rural-to-urban migratory flows.
