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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Central European countries push for back-up EU border plans over migrants

[Yearend 2015: A Picture and Its Story]The European Union should be ready with alternative plans to reinforce its borders until Turkey and Greece do more to reduce the number of refugees streaming into the bloc, the Czech and Slovak prime ministers said on Tuesday. Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has called a meeting of the Visegrad group of central European countries for Feb. 15, three days before an EU summit that will tackle the migration crisis. The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland have together taken a tough stance on migration and been at odds with western EU neighbours in dealing with an influx of migrants that topped 1 million last year.


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