19-10-2016 16:54 via news.yahoo.com

"No more Mr. Nice Guy": EU gets tough on African migrants

By Gabriela Baczynska and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Encouraged by their success in halting a mass influx of refugees by closing Greek borders and cutting a controversial deal with Turkey, EU leaders are getting tough on African migrants too. A Brussels summit on Thursday will endorse pilot projects to pressure African governments via aid budgets to slow an exodus of people north across the Sahara and Mediterranean. It also wants swift results from an EU campaign to deport large num
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