In a bind over Turkey, EU finds money to contain immigration


  • World
  • Wednesday, 04 Mar 2020

European Commission Vice-President for Promoting the European Way of Life Margaritis Schinas and and Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson attend a news conference for immediate measures to support Greece, in Brussels March 4, 2020. REUTERS/

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries offered more money on Wednesday for border policing in Greece and humanitarian aid in Syria's Idlib, but they were in a bind over Turkey as they sought to avert a mass influx of migrants.

EU interior ministers met in Brussels on Wednesday for emergency talks, to be followed by foreign ministers on Thursday and Friday, as some 25,000 refugees and migrants gather on the Greek border, seeking to cross into Europe.

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