[MigrantCause.com] Instead of building walls, the UK must do more to help the Calais asylum seekers

 

Instead of building walls, the UK must do more to help the Calais asylum seekers

Guy Verhofstadt

David Cameron and François Hollande both opposed recent proposals by the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, to put in place a fairer EU-wide system for resettling asylum seekers landing in Greece and Italy.

I therefore found it deeply hypocritical of the French and UK governments to now call for an EU-wide approach to deal with the situation in Calais. Of course, they are right. We need to find an effective EU-wide solution. But this can only be based on a just and equal system, where everyone takes their fair share of genuine asylum seekers and much more is done to tackle the root causes of this complicated crisis.

Politicians in France and the UK, along with many others, have rightly condemned the Hungarian president, Viktor Orbán, for planning to build a four-metre-high wall on the border separating his country from Serbia. But, fearful of domestic criticism from nationalists keen to exploit the migrants' misery for their own political ends, the British and French governments plan to build another wall in Calais. As Europeans, we should know all too well that building walls is never a solution.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/06/building-walls-calais-asylum-seekers-uk-france

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