The EU’s most sacred rules and beliefs could fall apart under the strain of ‘a migration crisis without equivalent in Europe since the Second World War’, according to its border agency.

Frontex also revealed a 70 per cent increase in the number of migrants using fraudulent documents to try to get into Britain.

The same organisation has also warned that jihadis are taking advantage of mass migration to sneak into the EU and plot atrocities.

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Frontex said the EU’s most sacred rules and beliefs could fall apart under the strain of the migration crisis. Pictured: Migrants at the port of Piraeus, Greece

Frontex, which recorded 1.82 million illegal crossings into the EU last year, mapped out a number of scenarios of what might happen if the crisis is not brought under control.

It said the ‘common European identity’ could lose relevance as countries look after their own interests.

In this situation, it said: ‘The high numbers of economic migrants – mostly with low educational qualifications and with a different cultural background – are not truly integrated into European societies.’

The Frontex report also revealed the number of people aiming to get to the UK with false papers jumped by 70 per cent last year.

The report said: ‘This trend is mostly attributable to the increasing number of Albanian nationals often misusing Italian and Greek ID cards followed by Ukrainian nationals abusing authentic Polish ID cards.

‘Other nationalities aiming to reach the UK with fraudulent documents were Syrian, Iranian and Chinese nationals.’

Overall there had been a ‘marked increase’ in document fraud recorded on movements within the EU’s border-free Schengen zone.

The report said: ‘This is partly due to the large number of migrants undertaking secondary movements within the EU, often with fraudulent documents obtained in the country of entry to the EU.’

There were 5,409 forged documents issued by EU member states detected in 2015.

Frontex mapped out a number of scenarios of what might happen if the crisis is not brought under control. Pictured: Migrants camped out at the Idomeni refugee camp at the Greek-Macedonia border

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Justice Minister Dominic Raab, an Out campaigner, said: ‘Frontex warns that this creates a clear security threat, and being outside Schengen can’t protect us properly.

‘EU law ties our hands by forcing us to rely on travel documents issued by other EU countries, and prevents us from issuing our own.’

Labour MP Keith Vaz, chairman of the Commons home affairs committee, said: ‘The extent of the fraud revealed in this report poses real dangers for our security and undermines our immigration system.

'When a British immigration officer is presented with an Italian or Greek ID they are clearly unaware of the history or misuse of that document.’

Criminal organisations have access to large numbers of stolen blank Syrian passports and printers used for their personalisation, the report said.

It added: ‘This allows them to produce genuine-looking passports, which may be difficult to identify even by experienced document experts.’

Yesterday, the Mail revealed Frontex fears that mass migration is allowing terrorists to sneak into Europe.

It said it had no idea how many illegal migrants there were and, in any case, had no way of tracing their movements in the EU.