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Saturday, February 20, 2016

UK deal done, Merkel resets sights on EU migrant plan with Turkey

[Migrants wait to enter Macedonia from Greece near Gevgelija, Macedonia]By Paul Carrel BRUSSELS (Reuters) - With a deal secured to help keep Britain in the European Union, German Chancellor Angela Merkel swiftly refocused her sights on pressing ahead with a joint EU solution to the bloc's refugee crisis in tandem with Turkey. Along with the deal for Britain, tackling Europe's migrant crisis in collaboration with Turkey was a top priority for Merkel at a two-day EU summit in Brussels that ended late on Friday. Germany took in over one million migrants last year, many of them fleeing war in Syria and Iraq, and has led efforts to offer money and promises to revive Turkey's long-stalled EU accession talks to get Ankara to prevent more people from embarking from its shores for Europe.


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