EU wants migrant summit with Turkey at end-Nov, says Merkel


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  • Friday, 13 Nov 2015

German Chancellor Angela Merkel takes part in an informal meeting of European Union heads of state and government in Valletta, Malta, November 12, 2015. REUTERS/Yves Herman

VALLETTA (Reuters) - The European Union plans to hold a summit with Turkey at the end of November or beginning of December to discuss how to tackle the migration crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the end of an EU meeting in Malta on Thursday.

"It is about ... an EU-Turkey summit to demonstrate that we will work very closely with each other and that we sensibly share out the challenges that have arisen from the civil war in Syria and the difficult situations in other countries," Merkel told reporters.

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