EU, Balkan leaders agree to coordinate on migrants

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http://www.france24.com/en/20151025-eu-balkans-refugee-crisis-summit

EU, Balkan leaders agree to coordinate on migrants
Latest update : 2015-10-26

European leaders on Monday agreed to cooperate to manage migrants crossing the Balkans but offered no quick fix to a crisis that threatens to set Europe's nations against one another.

Meeting in Brussels as another woman and two children died at sea off Turkey, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met leaders of nine countries on the route from the Aegean to Germany taken this year by half a million people, defying EU borders and unfurling razor wire.

After talks throughout Sunday evening that began with what officials described as a round of leaders “venting” at each other’s conduct, the 11 governments issued a pledge to work together, along with a 17-point action plan that includes United Nations-aided accommodation for 100,000 people, half of them in Greece.

“Unilateral action may trigger a chain reaction,” the joint statement read - reflecting what is already fact, as states have variously sealed off borders or moved and deposited busloads of undocumented migrants at their neighbors’ frontiers.

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