I wonder how many future sportsmen or women (or fathers and mothers of future stars) are in the makeshift camps around Calais at the moment trying to get to the UK ? or (future) Doctors, Nurses, workers, scientists etc etc and does anybody actually give a flying fuck about all this human misery? Our EU leaders seem more worried about the financial fall backs due to the migrant crisis in Calais, nobody (in power) seems disturbed by the fact that there are thousands of (mainly African) migrants trying and getting to Europe and lots of them are heading toward Calais, this problem is not going away and there are no easy answers. Telling the Greeks to go eat humble pie and get used to being poor for a couple of generations was easy posturing for our eurocrats,when faced with a humanitarian crisis of this proportion it's heads in the coastal sands and hope it goes away, but it won't.
While travelling through Calais myself the other week I was pretty shocked and 'culture-blasted' to see the rows and rows of cars carrying tourists (like myself) back and forth, hundreds and hundreds of trucks carrying consumer goods stuck in huge traffic jams, then turning around to see people trying to climb over fences and being forced back by truncheon waving french 'flics'.  How the fuck would I be able to explain this to an Alien that might just happen by from one of our celestial neighbours? I wouldn't be able to, it's madness, but like I said there are no easy solutions.
So for a start what if we just started thinking about these people as people, mostly fleeing war, terror and a lack of future. They are people ,like us, so why don't we at least start treating them like we would ourselves, surely organising decent accommodation  shouldn't be beyond one of the worlds richest trading blocks? Thousands of fellow humans are living in primitive make do tents and living under the rainy skies of Calais, in the heart of this so say European 'community'.
A trip and a ferry ride from Calais to the UK and back is probably the best thing to do with your children this summer, take them and make them see what's going on, it will probably be the best education they can get as to how the world is economically organised and how we humans treat each other. Though it will be very embarrasing for parents to have to explain to their children that this is the 'Brave New World' they will inherit from us.