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Thursday, March 3, 2016

Greece cannot carry migrant burden on its own

[Greek PM Tsipras meets with European Council President Tusk at the Maximos Mansion in Athens]Unilateral actions by European Union member states to deal with the migrant crisis troubling the bloc is hurting solidarity and must stop, EU Council President Donald Tusk and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Friday. "Greece will demand that all countries respect the European treaty and that there will be sanctions for those that do not," Tsipras said after the two met on Friday ahead of an EU leaders summit next week. "We ask that unilateral actions stop in Europe." EU officials have told Reuters that Europeans, and particularly the German government, are looking for Turkey to reduce the number of migrant arrivals in Greece to below 1,000 a day at most as an initial condition for discussing taking some Syrian refugees directly from Turkey.


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