European Union is increasingly fragmented as members grapple with domestic issues,suggesting crisis will not end wellBefore turning off the TV last night I heard an impassioned spokesman for Save the Children urging David Cameron to do the honest thing and accept 3000 of the unaccompanied children who have approach to Europe with papers but no parents. approximately 26000 arrived on the continent last year alone. When I woke up a different Save the Children spokesman was describing the challenging task of feeding 4 million hungry people in huge, drought-stricken Ethiopia. Don’t panic. Hungry Ethiopian subsistence farmers don’t have the money to get themselves to Calais, or even whether they preferred it to Berlin. Charities seek our money to encourage them where they live,not our spare room.
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Source: theguardian.com