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France won't host any migrant processing centres

BRUSSELS: France will not host any of the migrant processing centres that the EU agreed on as part of a summit deal
Published June 29, 2018 Updated June 29, 2018 02:54pm

BRUSSELS: 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.

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