Migrants threat to society, says minister

The upsurge of migrants heading to Europe from Africa is threatening to undermine living standards and social structures in the EU, British foreign secretary Philip Hammond has warned.

Hammond said the continent could not absorb “millions” of Africans and that EU laws needed to be overhauled to ensure those coming simply to find a better way of life could be returned to their own country.

He said that in many cases, migrants knew they only had to set foot in Europe for there to be little chance of them ever being forced to leave.