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Friday, December 15, 2017

The Latest: Tusk distances himself from anti-migrant views

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on the European Union summit (all times local): 12:20 a.m. Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, sought to distance himself from the hard-line anti-migrant views of leaders in his native Poland, saying he would never speak about migrants the way they do. Tusk's comments late Thursday came after he set off a debate earlier in the week by saying the EU's quota system for resettling migrants has been ineffective and divisive. The comment angered Italy and Greece, where tens of thousands of migrants are in camps hoping to be resettled elsewhere in the Europe.


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