Angela Merkel has called for the EU to sign Turkey-style "one in, one out" deals with North African states in a bid to avert a growing summer immigration crisis. She told regional daily Neue Passauer Zeitung: "We must agree on similar deals with other countries, such as in North Africa, in order to get better control over the Mediterranean sea refugee routes. Refugee crisis - in pictures27 show all Refugee crisis - in pictures1/27 A child looks through the fence at the Moria detention camp for migrants and refugees at the island of Lesbos on May 24, 2016. Since last week, Macedonia has restricted passage to northern Europe to only Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans who are considered war refugees. Asked whether he thought Brexit had partly been caused by voters seeing pictures of the immigration crisis, Mr Sutherland said: “It certainly was.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 23, 2016 12:26 UTC