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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Refugee crisis to test EU itself at summit of divided leaders

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Bitterly divided European leaders will seek to find a credible response to the worst migration crisis affecting the continent since World War Two, which has tarnished its image as a beacon of peace, at an emergency summit next week. European Council President Donald Tusk, who chairs EU summits, on Friday called on the 28-country bloc's leaders to stop shifting the responsibility onto others and to build a credible migration policy. Europe is struggling to deal with the hundreds of thousands of people entering it this year, increasingly across the water from Turkey to Greece and then up through the impoverished Balkans to the former Yugoslavia, of which Croatia and Slovenia are members of the EU.


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