David Cameron has drawn up a list of four demands for reform of the European Union. His presence at a summit in Malta this week to discuss the refugee crisis ought to have suggested to him a fifth, which should come first – the immediate shake-up of the EU’s response to a grave humanitarian crisis on its territory or borders. This mid-November summit was agreed last April. It was intended to address the flow of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Libya, at the hands of people traffickers and in small open boats. Since then the crisis has escalated to unprecedented proportions, with huge flows mainly of Syrian refugees from Turkey to the nearest Greek islands. Thousands have died; more die every day. Did it never occur to anybody to bring the summit forward? The European c