David Miliband: “It has made real the commitment of the United States and of the wider international community to empower Afghans to run…”

This is a really great moment not just for Europe, but for the global order because this is impunity many times over and it`s close to home.

If you pull up the anchor in choppy seas, the boat rocks backward and forward, and the passengers get seasick.

The western world has said that liberal democracy is on the line. And one of the aspects of liberal democracy is to treat those in need properly.

In terms of the politics, there`s something quite striking going on, which is that Europe has been bitterly divided over refugee issues over the last five years.