UK lawmakers criticise EU response to migrant crisis
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By AFP 7 hours ago in World
The European Union's response to the surge in migrant arrivals has been "lamentable", a committee of British lawmakers said Wednesday, slamming the bloc as unprepared to deal with the crisis.
Some 1.3 million asylum-seekers, mostly from conflict-torn Syria and Iraq, have flooded into Europe since the start of 2015, stretching resources and aggravating popular resentment in some countries.
The bloc has struggled to respond to the crisis -- the biggest movement of people to hit the continent since World War II -- which has threatened the collapse of the EU's cherished passport-free Schengen zone.
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