Britain, France ask EU nations to help with migrant crisis

Britain and France on Sunday urged other EU nations to
help them handle an escalating crisis over thousands of migrants
stranded in the French port of Calais, dpa reported.

"What we are currently facing is a global migration crisis," British
Home Secretary Theresa May and French Interior Minister Bernard
Cazeneuve said in a joint commentary in the Sunday Telegraph.

"This situation cannot be seen as an issue just for our two
countries," they wrote "It is a priority at both a European and
international level."

May and Cazeneuve said hundreds of migrants were "taking ever more
dangerous risks" to enter secure areas around the port of Calais and
the railhead of the Channel Tunnel, which links France to Britain
under the English Channel.

"Many of those in Calais and attempting to cross the Channel have
made their way there through Italy, Greece or other countries," they
said.