France Seeks EU Emergency Meeting — Live Updates

By Published on November 15, 2015

The European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, said on Sunday that there was no need for a complete review of the bloc’s refugee policy after the terrorist attacks in Paris, Agence France-Presse reported.

“Those who organized, who perpetrated, the attacks are the very same people who the refugees are fleeing, and not the opposite,” Mr. Juncker said before a Group of 20 summit meeting in Antalya, Turkey. “And so there is no need for an overall review of the European policy on refugees.”

Still, reports that one of the attackers may have entered Europe by traveling with the huge wave of migrants fleeing conflict zones could emerge as a divisive point as Europe tries to come up with a coherent plan to deal with the influx.

Poland said on Saturday that it would abandon plans to take in refugees as part of a European Union quota plan.

 

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