ANKARA (Reuters) - Europe should not respond to the inflow of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa with nationalism, because caring about human rights is part of the European identity, Europe's Economic Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said on Friday.
Moscovici, who is attending talks of world financial leaders in Turkey -- a country that has already taken in more than 2 million refugees from war-torn neighbours -- was responding to the words of Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who said on Thursday the influx of refugees into Europe threatened the continent's Christian roots.
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