Merkel, Orban Clash on Refugees, Laying Bare European Disunity
- Hungarian leader calls EU migration ‘Trojan horse’ of terror
- Merkel offers spirited defense as EU leaders call for unity
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered a spirited defense of her open-border refugee policy in a meeting Thursday with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who used a speech in her presence to blast European migration as a “Trojan horse of terrorism.”
With European Union leaders making urgent calls for unity a day after the U.K. triggered the process for leaving the 28-member bloc, the rare in-person clash between the two leaders laid bare divisions at a meeting in Malta of the European People’s Party, a grouping of center-right parties in the EU.