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Migrant crisis: Is the EU at 'grave risk'?

French PM Manuel Valls and former Conservative leader Lord Howard on migrant crisis and Schengen zone.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said the migrant crisis is putting the EU at risk and that Europe simply cannot take in all the refugees who want to come here.

鈥淓urope has forgotten that it needs borders,鈥 he told the 麻豆社's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

鈥淚t鈥檚 Europe that could die鈥 If Europe cannot protect its own borders it鈥檚 the very idea of Europe that will be thrown into doubt," said Mr Valls.

Former Conservative leader Lord Michael Howard said "it is not looking very likely, I have to say, that we are going to see a genuinely reformed European Union.鈥

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