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Italy's cry for help: What's Europe's answer to the migrant crisis

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Overwhelmed Italy threatens to shut its border and forcing a crisis meeting of European Union interior ministers to impose that long-promised sharing of the burden on refugees and migrants who continue to aim for its shores. Two years after the deal with Turkey to close the Balkan route, what's the right response to another summer of deadly tragedy?

Added on the 06/07/2017 20:09:16 - Copyright : France 24 EN

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