Cork schoolgirl explains why we must help refugees fleeing to Europe

Bishopstown Community School student, Anna Mustata, is 16 years old. An aspiring novelist and gifted mathematician, she won silver in the Mathematics Olympiad in Minsk in 2015, won a trip to Brussels after her BCS team won the Lord Mayor’s debate last month, and won a national essay competition hosted by the Law Faculty of UCC. Here, in an extract from her winning essay, Anna explains why, despite the increasing number of terrorist attacks, the EU principle of free movement must remain

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

These are the words of Martin Luther King, immortalised in the collective human consciousness. Today, I feel, they are more true and more pressing than ever before. While the western world enjoys greater prosperity than ever before, people in other parts of the world face a living hell on a daily basis due to war and civil strife.