German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) shakes hands with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (R) during a European Union leaders' summit with Turkey on the migrants crisis at the European Council in Brussels, on March 7, 2016. EU leaders held a summit with Turkey's prime minister on March 7 in order to back closing the Balkans migrant route and urge Ankara to accept deportations of large numbers of economic migrants from overstretched Greece. The European Union is hardening its stance in a bid to defuse the worst refugee crisis since World War II by increasingly putting the onus on Turkey and EU member Greece in return for aid.  / AFP / POOL / JOHN THYS
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