Tasoula Karaiskaki on the jungle in Calais

Tasoula Karaiskaki writes in the Sunday edition of Kathimerini on the jungle in Calais, where hundreds of refugees are living in provisional huts near the harbour: "Ever since the so-called jungle started receiving daily coverage in the mass media the French authorities have been trying to remove this 'disgrace'. … The policy is the same all over Europe. No improvement in the living conditions of those who didn't drown, weren't killed by electric cables, survived the controls and are now wasting away in the dirt, just so that others will be deterred. … The solution to the problem lies in its origin. If the West with its military expansion policy and its predatory economic policy doesn't revise its behaviour and stop exploiting the natural resources of developing countries it won't be able to stop the invasion of the hungry. Each year 2.2 million residency permits are issued in Europe, where 39 million illegal immigrants live. Around 500,000 illegals are arrested and 300,000 are deported. In the past five years two million new arrivals have applied for asylum in the EU. Climate change will create another 200 million refugees - that's half the population of Europe. How long will the walls [that Europe] is building hold?"

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