Anti-migrant force builds in Europe, hurting Merkel’s quest
By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press
Published: February 15, 2016, 5:45pm
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WARSAW, Poland — So where should the next impenetrable razor-wire border fence in Europe be built?
Hungary’s right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban thinks he knows the best place — on Macedonia’s and Bulgaria’s borders with Greece — smack along the main immigration route from the Middle East to Western Europe.
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