Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has criticised the Union for failing to be more generous

Date: 06/05/1999

in accommodating ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo. “Europeans are richer than they have ever been-I do not understand why we can have a row like this,” Kohl said in a newspaper interview. “If we have 300 million citizens and prosperity in Europe, then the countries of the EU should act. This has not happened in the EU in recent weeks.”