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German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Thursday that the migration challenge could determine Europe’s fate, hours ahead of a Brussels summit where EU leaders are expected to clash over the way forward.
“Europe has many challenges but migration could end up determining Europe’s destiny,” she told German lawmakers.
The path the EU chooses could decide if the bloc is viewed by others as a credible defender of the values it espouses, she said.
Europe can decide to “overcome the challenge in a way that people in Africa or elsewhere believe that we are guided by our values, and that we take a multilateral rather than a unilateral approach,” Merkel added.