Merkel declares asylum rules 'obsolete' as refugee talks opens
EU foreign ministers and their counterparts from nations bordering Syria meet in Luxembourg on Thursday to discuss the migration crisis, after German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared Europe's asylum rules are "obsolete"
(AFP) EU foreign ministers and their counterparts from nations bordering Syria meet on Thursday to discuss the migration crisis, after German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared Europe's asylum rules are "obsolete".
The meeting in Luxembourg, held after talks among the bloc's justice and interior ministers, will bring together EU diplomacy chiefs along with representatives from Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Balkan countries worst affected by the mass exodus from Syria.
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