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EU talks on Refugee crisis take place today

Talks on the refugee crisis continue at EU level today, with a meeting of foreign ministers in Luxem...
TodayFM
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6:33 AM - 4 Sep 2015



EU talks on Refugee crisis tak...

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EU talks on Refugee crisis take place today

TodayFM
TodayFM

6:33 AM - 4 Sep 2015



Talks on the refugee crisis continue at EU level today, with a meeting of foreign ministers in Luxembourg and a separate gathering of the leaders of four eastern European countries - including Hungary.

It comes ahead of a European Commission proposal to relocate an extra 120-thousand people across the European Union to be unveiled next week.

Calls are mounting for a united EU response to the refugee crisis after pictures were published of the body of three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi washed up on a beach in Turkey.

His brother and their mother also drowned.

Aylan's aunt - who lives in Canada - says she spoke to her sister-in-law before the family set off on their journey.



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