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Worst Migrant Crisis in Europe since WWII

France, UK to set up crisis centre

Macedonia declares 'state of emergency' on its border with Greece

AFP, Calais
Britain and France announced a new "command and control centre" yesterday to tackle smuggling gangs in Calais, as Europe grapples with its biggest migration crisis since World War 11.
Under a deal signed by Home Minister Theresa May and her French counterpart Bernard Cazeneuve, British teams will help bust smuggling gangs and reduce nightly attempts by desperate migrants and refugees to break into the Channel Tunnel.
Macedonia said yesterday it had declared a "state of emergency” on its southern border with Greece and would draft in the army to help control the influx of migrants crossing the frontier.
"Due to an increasing pressure on the southern border... it is estimated that greater and more efficient control is needed in the region where illegal border crossings from the Greek side have been massively registered," a government statement said.
In an interview with AFP, the head
of the Red Cross slammed the "indifference” of governments across Europe that has allowed a continental crisis to take hold.
"What will be the saturation point? When will everybody wake up to see that it is a real crisis?" Elhadj As Sy, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said in Geneva.
His comments came as a barrage of alarming statistics showed that hundreds of thousands of migrants - many fleeing war and persecution in countries like Syria - are pouring into the European Union, with no end in sight.
The new deal for Calais includes extra French policing units, additional freight searches, and tighter security at the entrance to the Channel Tunnel near Calais through more fencing, cameras, floodlighting and infrared detection technology.
Acontrol centre will also bebuiltthere to try and bring down entry attempts, which at the start of the summer numbered up to 2,000 per night, but have
since reduced due to tighter security.
Under the agreement, seen by AFP, Britain will also provide 10 million euros over two years to speed up asylum applications and boost humanitarian aid in the northern port city.
Some 3,000 people from Africa, the Middle East and Asia are camped in Calais, and at least nine have died trying to cross over into Britain, where many have family and work is thought easier to find.
These numbers are a tiny fraction of those entering other European countries, particularly Germany, which said this week it expects a new record 800,000 asylum seekers in 2015 - far more than the500,000 initially expected.
Cazeneuve was due to travel to Germany yesterday evening to discuss the issue, which Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned could become a bigger challenge for the European Union than the Greek debt crisis.
EU border agency Frontex on Tuesday reported a record high of 107,500 migrants at the European Union's borders last month.