Germany Rejects Belarus’ Call for EU to Take 2,000 Refugees
- ‘We won’t give in to pressure,’ German interior minister says
- Lukashenko proposed EU should take in refugees in Merkel call
A migrant camp near the Bruzgi-Kuznica border crossing in Belarus on Nov. 17.
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Germany rejected Belarus’ proposal that Europe take in 2,000 of the refugees stranded on the border with Poland as the government in Minsk moved to ease the crisis and shift the migrants from the exposed ground near the fence to nearby warehouse.
The European Union will do everything it can to provide for asylum seekers suffering in the cold, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told reporters in Warsaw. “What we won’t do is take in refugees -- that we give in to pressure and say we’re going to take refugees in European countries.”