France Won’t Host Any Migrant Centre – Macron

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French President, Emmanuel Macron                                                          PHILIPPE WOJAZER / AFP
France will not host any of the migrant processing centres that the EU agreed on as part of a summit deal on Friday, President Emmanuel Macron said.
“France is not a country of first arrival. Because of its situation, France will not open centres of this kind,” Macron told a press conference in Brussels.
AFP

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