LONDON: The European Union’s response to the surge in migrant arrivals has been “lamentable”, a committee of British lawmakers said on Wednesday, slamming the bloc as unprepared to deal with the crisis.

Some 1.3 million asylum-seekers, mostly from conflict-torn Syria and Iraq, have flooded into Europe since the start of 2015, stretching resources and aggravating popular resentment in some countries.

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