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Purveyor

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Fri Sep 25, 2015, 03:41 PM Sep 2015

We're Doomed: EU Chief Fears Union Will COLLAPSE Over Migrant Crisis

Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, warned the EU was now facing a "critical point" and that the migrant crisis hadn't even reached its peak.

As he chaired an emergency meeting of EU leaders in Brussels last night Mr Tusk painted a bleak picture of the EU's future, saying the 28-member bloc was on the verge of breakdown with "recriminations and misunderstanding" pitting nations against one another.

The future of free movement was at stake, he said, as the continent had lost control of its borders as well as a "sense of order".

He added: "The most urgent question we should ask ourselves...is how to regain control of our external borders.

"Otherwise, it doesn't make sense to even speak about common migration policy."

He appeared to lay much of the blame with Germany, accusing Chancellor Angela Merkel of exacerbating the problem by sending the signal to desperate Syrians fleeing their war-torn homeland that Germany had no limit on the number of migrants it would accept.

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http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/607595/Migrant-crisis-EU-lost-control-borders-danger-collapse

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We're Doomed: EU Chief Fears Union Will COLLAPSE Over Migrant Crisis (Original Post) Purveyor Sep 2015 OP
Maybe they should of thought about that...... Maxinedaily Sep 2015 #1
We came, we saw and he... Fumesucker Sep 2015 #2
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The light dawns, eh? War is destabilizing, who knew? nt bemildred Sep 2015 #3
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