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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Merkel presses EU partners to share burden of hosting refugees, says all have responsibility

Chancellor Angela Merkel is pressing Germany's European Union partners to share the burden of hosting a surge of asylum-seekers, arguing that solidarity should be a "matter of course." The bloc's 28 members are at odds over an EU plan to divide up refugees arriving largely in Italy and Greece, setting commitments for each country to host a certain number.


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