article_snippet: Britain yesterday came under an extraordinary attack for failing to pay compensation to France for the migrant chaos in Calais.
article_snippet: The port’s mayor Natacha Bouchart launched into a rant at the Government for refusing to fully engage in the European project'  
article_snippet: A country cannot remain both in and out of Europe, creating problems but providing no compensation and no support to local authorities, such as mine and others, which are left alone to assume huge responsibilities.
article_snippet: ‘Calais mayor slams the UK over migrants.
article_snippet: The mayor of Calais has attacked Britain for 'not getting fully involved in the European project' Violence: Mass brawls between rival gangs left more than 70 people injured during July and August .
article_snippet: The illegal migrant problem in Calais is entirely of France’s own making.
article_snippet: They signed up to open borders, we did not.
article_snippet: They have been making it worse by building new facilities for illegal migrants.
article_snippet: ’ Peter Bone, standing for the Tories in Wellingborough, said: ‘The mayor of Calais does not seem to realise that the problems are French, and the problems are French should be dealing with The mayor of Calais.
article_snippet: The mayor of Calais said, with as many as 3,000 migrants in the port, Mrs Bouchart could not handle the situation .
article_snippet: Calais is to open the Jules Ferry camp to immigrants, a former children's holiday camp, which will become an immigrant centre - the first stage of which begins as a feeding centre .
article_snippet: ‘The problems at Calais did not materialise because the UK is a honeypot but because the EU has the Schengen agreement which means it is quite incapable of controlling it own borders.
article_snippet: I, Calais was the last bit of France to be English.
article_snippet: Calais would perhaps be better run if Calais were given back.