European Union leaders were set Thursday to push ahead with plans to boost cooperation with North African countries and beef up the bloc's borders in an effort to stop migrants entering Europe.
A draft statement prepared for their summit emphasises the need to step up cooperation with countries that people leave and transit through to seek shelter or better lives in Europe.
They said that work with those countries on "investigating, apprehending and prosecuting smugglers and traffickers should be intensified."
"The problem is European and the solution should be a European one as well."
"It's possible, no refugees but more money," he told reporters, adding that it must be substantial funds, "not nothing, not peanuts."
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