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Monday, August 24, 2015

Merkel and Hollande plan EU-wide response to escalating migration crisis

Two leaders meet in Berlin after Macedonian forces allow migrants through border and up to Serbia, on their way to Hungary – first state in Schengen zone Thousands of refugees were heading towards Hungary and the EU border on Monday, as the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said the union’s member states must fairly share the burden of dealing with Europe’s biggest migration crisis since the second world war.Speaking before talks in Berlin with the French president, François Hollande, Merkel said Europe needed to act together to deal with the chaotic scenes in Greece and the western Balkans as desperate migrants tried to reach the EU. “The current situation troubles us greatly,” she said. Continue reading...


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