Merkel says Europe moving closer to common asylum system
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the migration deal clinched at an EU summit on Friday, describing it as a decisive step in the direction of a common European asylum policy.
"What we achieved here together is perhaps more than I had expected," Merkel told reporters at the end of the summit.
"We are not at the end of the road. I always said that we would never be able to agree a common European asylum system here. But the more we agree among ourselves, the closer we get to a possible European solution. I'm convinced of that."
