Germany's Merkel warns EU against migrant crisis nationalism


  • World
  • Wednesday, 07 Oct 2015

STRASBOURG (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned fellow leaders of European Union countries on Wednesday against succumbing to nationalism in tackling the bloc's migrant crisis.

In a speech to the European Parliament, she also backed a new EU system to share the burden of accommodating the hundreds of thousands of migrants arriving on the continent, declaring that the existing "Dublin" rules had failed.

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