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Europe’s interior and foreign ministers will meet in mid-October to discuss how to respond to the huge influx of migrants and refugees arriving at EU borders, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Thursday.

While France and Britain have tried to present a united front in tackling the crisis, the issue has strained ties between the two.

French riot police sprayed migrants with chemical irritants after they tore down security fences at the Eurotunnel terminal in Calais on Saturday night.

Thousands of migrants have been scaling fences near the tunnel in recent weeks, trying to hop on freight trains or trucks destined for Britain.

Speaking about proposed ID cards for immigrants, he told Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘I don’t think there is any doubt that most people in Calais are coming here for economic reasons. There are a few thousand of them in total, and only a fraction of those have...

The crisis has become a hot political issue on both sides of the Channel and British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande discussed the issue by phone.

Lynch urged the British government to “work closely with humanitarian agencies and faith communities in the migrants’ countries of origins” and said he welcomed a joint August. 2 pledge by the British and French interior ministers to “provide protection...

In France’s Port of Calais, thousands of migrants – including many refugees from Africa and the Middle East – have set up camp not far from the entrance to the Channel tunnel, which connects France and Great Britain. Observers say their push to enter the...

Speaking at London in lieu of the Calais Crisis, French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve, placed the blame on Eurotunnel for the surge of problems at the freight terminal.

Several hundred migrants were escorted away from the terminal by French police on Wednesday night – the third night of large-scale attempts to storm the terminal.

Numerous migrants originate from Syria and Iraq, where people say they are trying to escape the four-year civil war, starvation and human rights abuses.

According to report, pressure is being brought to bear on Eurotunnel Channel Tunnel to ensure it rapidly installs the new fencing Britain has agreed to pay for.

The migrant crisis in the northern French port of Calais has hit the headlines in the past week, with people desperate to reach Britain making attempt after attempt to breach Eurotunnel (Paris: FR0010533075 – news) defences, some paying for it with their lives.

Drivers can be fined if their trucks are caught carrying illegal migrants, but according to BBC many don’t challenge the migrants because they fear violence.

Local police and tunnel security said hundreds of migrants had scaled fences around the Coquelles terminal in northern France and attempted to smuggle themselves on board vehicles.