Hail,Caesar! star follows up combative performance at Berlin film festival press conference with meeting to discuss the Syria crisis with the German chancellor George Clooney has backed Germanys open-door policy towards refugees fleeing the Syrian clash after meeting Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.
Clooney and his human-rights lawyer wife, Amal, and enjoyed a one-hour meeting with Merkel on Friday morning to discuss the ongoing crisis in the Middle East and the political reaction to it in Europe and elsewhere. Merkel has led Germany’s approach to the greatest movement of refugees since the moment world war,which has resulted in Europe’s most populous nation taking in nearly one in two of all asylum applications made by Syrians in EU member states last year.
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Source: theguardian.com