Fatal lure of Europe

ANOTHER 49 migrants feared drowned in the Mediterranean, bringing the total dead this year to more than 2,200… Austrian troops and armoured vehicles sent to stem the flow from Italy, where 85,000 have arrived from Libya since January… Spain braced for a sharp increase on last year’s influx of 10,250… Britain urged to accept thousands more….

With the migration season approaching its peak – and the UN warning seven in 10 who make the deadly crossing have no claim to refugee status – it is clear the EU is further than ever from finding solutions to the crisis convulsing the continent.

How many more must suffer and die in the name of human rights before safe havens are established in Africa and the Middle East – and the fatal lure of Europe’s welcome mat is withdrawn?