Europe’s mayors are angry.
On the frontline of the continent’s fight against migration, city leaders see national governments and the European Union drawing up plans to tackle the refugee crisis that do little, if anything, to protect their citizens. Some are taking matters into their own hands, and tapping into years of experience in integrating migrants into the local community.
“We local authorities cannot accept anymore the hypocrisy of heads of government that arrive at the European Council saying that they will tackle the issue but then don’t fulfill their commitments,” said François Decoster, mayor of Saint-Omer, 40 kilometers southeast of Calais, …read more
Source: European Voice
