Merkel Calls on EU to Share Burden of Exploding Refugee Crisis
Migrants walk along a railway line after they have crossed the border from Serbia into Hungary.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, facing her country’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II, called on European Union counterparts to take on a greater share of the influx of asylum seekers.
“What is happening at the moment is not just,” Merkel said at an event in Berlin on Sunday. “If Europe is a place of solidarity -- and we have also often shown our solidarity -- then we must on this question remain solidly united.”