Brexit Unity Cracks as EU Leaders Split on Migrants, Euro Area
- Merkel urges colleagues to show more ‘solidarity’ on migrants
- Tusk says lack of unity ‘very visible’ on monetary union
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The united front that European Union leaders claim in Brexit talks cracked at the bloc’s last summit of the year with heads of state and government clashing openly on migration and admitting to divisions on how to move the monetary union forward.
Even before the two-day gathering began in Brussels on Thursday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to fellow leaders at loggerheads over how to cope with migrants from across the Mediterranean. “We don’t just need solidarity on controlling and steering migration on our external borders,” Merkel told reporters on her arrival. “We also need internal solidarity. There cannot be selective solidarity among EU members.”