Night of Discord Sees EU Reach Deal on Sharing Refugee Burden
Irish Navy ship Le Eithne rescues migrants in the Mediterranean Sea in June.
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European leaders pledged to share the burden of refugees from across the Mediterranean after a night of heated haggling that saw an exasperated Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi brand his counterparts as not “worthy.”
Leaders, with some exceptions, agreed after acrimonious discussions in Brussels to give refugee status to 40,000 asylum-seekers from Syria and Eritrea who reached Italy and Greece. The talks began over a working dinner Thursday and lasted until past 2 a.m.