How Long Before Calais Is Back To Square One?

[naomi24]

//More than 100 migrants, including minors, spent the night sleeping in or near the charred wreck of the "Jungle" migrant camp, despite French authorities declaring it “empty”….. Those who did not register at the centre cannot expect to be resettled by local authorities across France, regional prefect Fabienne Buccio said.//

http://news.sky.com/story/migrants-sleep-in-the-charred-remains-of-the-jungle-camp-in-calais-10633795

[fiction-factory]

I guess those traffickers who make a living out of transporting people towards Calais may not have cancelled the service and given refunds. It will take time for the news to filter through. We can only wait and see what happens. There will be problems along the way but France seems determined to tackle it and the EU as a whole is realising they cannot continue to allow the flow into and across Europe to go on as it was.
The longer term issue is how quickly those registered and accommodated by the French will be given EU/French citizenship and use it to claim the right to move to the UK legally

[New Judge]

“I wasn't necessarily thinking of people returning, but rather of newcomers arriving.”

Newcomers were arriving even as the camp was being cleared on Monday. Many of those who have left did not do so via the official routes. Large numbers have simply walked twenty miles to a similar encampment just outside Dunkirk which is now growing in size. Ploughing the ground up (or somehow making it unusable) is a good idea. The trouble is it simply shifts the problem as the whole of the coastal area between Boulogne and Dunkirk cannot be ploughed up.

A large part of the problem is the EU’s Schengen Agreement. If national borders were in place and properly policed it would be far more difficult for migrants to head northwards and westwards across Europe (as was witnessed a few months ago when some countries in the east closed their borders). Once in Europe (usually either Italy or Greece) there is no mechanism in place to prevent them roaming across the continent until they reach the destination of their choice (or almost reach it, as is the case with those in Calais). The problem in France is entirely of their own making. They signed Schengen (when there were adequate warnings of the problems it may cause); they continue to subscribe to it; they have done little or nothing until now to prevent large numbers of people congregating on the Channel coast.

Until Europe restores some sanity to its politics the problem will continue. The free movement of people is not a necessity for the Free Market. It is a political ideology driven by the Euromaniacs’ dreams and desires to see a Federal Europe. Until those dreams are finally shattered the nonsense will continue.

[New Judge]

"The longer term issue is how quickly those registered and accommodated by the French will be given EU/French citizenship and use it to claim the right to move to the UK legally"

Which is why there is urgency to formalise Brexit asap.

[youngmafbog]

News shouldn't take too long to travel though.

Most of these able young men appear to have designer clothes and smart phones so can see the news.

[youngmafbog]

Too right NJ, Mrs M needs to pull the proverbial finger out.

[naomi24]

From my original link: //Those who did not register at the centre cannot expect to be resettled by local authorities across France//

I wonder if this will apply to new arrivals too now? If so, the problem will never be resolved.

[1rovert]

It might help for the UK, if our stupid government, stopped paying them benefits, which we can ill afford.

Seeing the ''children'' being brought over from Calais, I was 81, and looking in the mirror, I guess I am wrong, and only 51.

[1rovert]

'sorry...

I'm only 51.