Austria's Kurz plans to meet Merkel, other leaders on migration


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  • Wednesday, 20 Jun 2018

Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Soeder attend a joint cabinet meeting in Linz, Austria, June 20, 2018. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

LINZ, Austria (Reuters) - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is likely to meet his German counterpart Angela Merkel and other European leaders this week to discuss migration, he said on Wednesday.

"There will probably be a meeting this week between Angela Merkel, me and other heads of state and government on the issue of migration policy," Kurz told reporters ahead of a joint cabinet meeting with ministers from the German state of Bavaria.

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