Migration crisis tears at EU's cohesion and tarnishes its image

Brussels

DEEP divisions over how to cope with a flood of migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Asia pose a threat to the European Union's values and global standing, and may diminish its ability to act jointly to reform the eurozone and ease Greece's debt.

With harrowing images of drowning children, refugees being herded on and off trains and beaten by police, and barbed-wire fences slicing across Europe, the migration crisis is the moral equivalent of the eurozone crisis. In both cases, the principle of solidarity is being sorely tested.