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Up to 200 people may have
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on
Friday that European Union leaders stand ready for an emergency meeting, if
needed, to discuss the refugee crisis but she added that EU interior ministers
were already working intensively to find solutions. "The heads of state and governments
are standing ready to meet if the preliminary work is done and if it's
necessary to hold an emergency summit," she said at a news conference in
Berlin.
"There
are already very intensive efforts at the EU level taking place about how we
can better cope with this issue," she added, noting that a summit would
make sense if decisions had to be taken by EU leaders after interior ministers
finish the work.
"There
is fortunately already a high level of agreement between Germany and France
that gives me a lot of hope that we will be able to come up with
solutions."
EU
leaders declared this week that the EU has failed in the face of human agony on
its frontiers.
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