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The new French presidents call for the greatest humanity in dealing with the escalating refugee crisis appears to have fallen on deaf ears after his interior minister Grard Collomb quickly ruled out creating a welcome centre for migrants on a recent visit to Calais.

Mr Collomb pledged to deploy extra riot police to avoid the area becoming an abscess that would lure migrants in after dismantling the Jungle camp.

His tough comments came just a day after centrist president Emmanuel Macron said he would speed up the asylum request process from more than a year to just six months.

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Local papers have suggested the pair are playing good cop bad cop over the issue, which could spark cracks in the presidents very new cabinet team.

Mr Macron recently hailed German Chancellor Angela Merkel as a European saviour who saved the continents collective dignity with her open-door immigration policy.

And standing next to her during last weeks EU summit, Mr Macron emphasised the importance of solidarity in managing the migrant crisis.

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Mr Macron pointed out that the EU failed to react when the crisis began.

He said: We did not listen to Italy at the beginning announcing the coming wave and then Italy and Greece were severely disturbed.

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Then it was host countries which were disturbed. There was a lack of European solidarity to share the burden. It is a fact.

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