Europe's Fragile Unity Crumbles as Migration Quarrel Spills Over
- France and Italy in diplomatic face-off; Merkel on backfoot
- Fallout could have wider repurcussions on the future of EU
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Three summers after Europe’s biggest migration influx since World War II, the old wounds are reopening.
Lingering political tensions over the unresolved question of how to control immigration from outside Europe have now broken out into the open, and the fallout is reshaping alliances and stoking old rivalries from Rome to Berlin, Paris and Vienna.