A majority of ‘refugees’ flooding into Europe are not refugees but are using asylum-seeker status as a cover, according to top EU official Frans Timmerman, vice-president of the European Commission, citing what he said were new, unpublished figures from the EU border agency Frontex.

Speaking on Tuesday 26th January, 2016, with Dutch national broadcaster NOS, he added that these false refugees are mostly aspiring settlers from Morocco and Tunisia and are infiltrating Europe through porous Turkish borders.