Europe must work together to resolve the migrant crisis

If the migrant crisis is to be solved, the 28 members of the European Union are going to have to work together.

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The migrant crisis is a pan-European Union problem

The row over David Cameron's use of the word "swarm" when describing migrants trying to board trucks heading through the Channel Tunnel is a way for politicians and the press to avoid the real, and intractable, problem underlying the Calais migrant crisis, says Paul Vallely in The Independent.

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Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

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