Merkel Says Balkan Route Closure Won't Resolve Refugee Crisis

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel redoubled her warning that border closures won’t resolve Europe’s refugee crisis, taking aim at governments shutting down frontiers throughout the western Balkans.

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