The incident happened in Prague, when Merkel was about to meet the Czech Prime Minister.
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“The Bratislava summit will accent ways that we can improve economic power, create more job for young people and now to boost internal and border security”, Germany’s chancellor said at a joint press conference with Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka in Prague.
(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski). German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, is greeted by Poland’s Prime Minister Beata Szydlo in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016., as she arrives for talks with four central European leaders about the shape of the Europea.
“We should list the issue of security as a priority, and we should start setting up a common European army”, Mr Orban said. The talks, in preparation for an European Union summit next month, focused on security concerns and migrants.
The U.K.’s referendum in June on leaving the EU “is a watershed in European development and in the success story of European integration”, Merkel said.
In an early response to Britain’s shock vote to exit the EU, Poland’s powerful rightwing leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski called for EU institutional reforms that would forge a confederation of nation states under a president in charge of a powerful common military.
Merkel is meeting 15 other heads of state this week to prepare the groundwork for a September 16 summit in Bratislava aimed at giving new agenda to the bloc hit by the immigration wave and Britain’s decision to leave.
There she will be pressured over her migration policy with the nations angry over her drive for a mandatory refugee relocation scheme, being pushed from the EU. The leaders will also discuss migrants, humanitarian aid for them and how to strengthen the economy.
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“There are diverging views on how to distribute migrants across the European Union, but on many other issues opinions converge”, Merkel said, pointing to an European Union agreement with Turkey to stem the flow of mostly Syrian refugees to Europe.
