Germany and Italy meet for emergency talks as EU migrant crisis reaches boiling point
EU OFFICIALS are to hold crisis talks over fears Europe is under siege from rising numbers of migrants.
By GILE SHELDRICK
Express.co.uk
Mon, Jul 3, 2017
More than 12,000 landed in Italy last week alone as the scramble to reach the Continent from Libya shows no sign of slowing.
The onslaught showed just how much of a disaster the EU immigration policy was, said UKIP home affairs spokeswoman Jane Collins.
The “unsustainable” influx has seen Libya – a gateway to Europe for thousands of sub-Saharan Africans – threaten to shut its ports and send back boatloads of asylum seekers.
Germany, France and Italy will meet for top-level discussions after the EU was told to urgently revise its asylum rules and become part of the solution not the problem.
Critics said the European border Frontex should end its rescue missions in the Mediterranean.
They act as a ferry service for tens of thousands trying to make it to the Continent.
The emergency has sent shockwaves across the bloc with the number of economic migrants this year set to break records.
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