Community involvement in refugee crisis essential – Harkin

The Independent MEP Marian Harkin says she’s received plenty of correspondence from people in her constituency offering rooms and accommodation for refugees fleeing the likes of Syria and Libya. Ms Harkin was speaking in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. During an address to the Parliament today, the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker pleaded for Europe to open its arms and re-settle some one hundred and sixty thousand refugees. Here’s Marian Harkin.

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