French President Emmanuel Macron today likened rising nationalism and anti-migrant sentiment in Europe to a kind of "disease".
On a visit to Brittany three days before a meeting of European leaders to try resolve the continent's migrant crisis Macron urged the French not to give into anti-EU sentiment.
"I'm saying to you in the gravest terms. Many hate it (Europe) but they have hated it for a long time, and now you see them (nationalists) rise, like a disease, all around Europe, in countries where we thought that they would never reappear."
Macron condemned "resurgent nationalism and closed borders, which some are pushing for" while repeating that Europe "cannot welcome everyone."