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Germany's Merkel in Poland for talks on EU future, migrants

Czech police said they arrested a man Thursday for attempting to drive his black Mercedes into Merkel's motorcade in Prague as she travelled from the airport to government headquarters.

The German leader was in Prague for discussions with the Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka on strengthening defense co-operation within the European Union, Reuters reported.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo stop for a photo prior to talks in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016.

Ahead of her visit in Warsaw on Friday, Poland's foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski criticised German foreign policy as being too "selfish", citing the examples of migration policy, and the plan to build a new gas pipeline connecting Russian Federation and Germany, bypassing Poland.

European Union leaders will tackle security and migration policy as well as economic growth at a key September summit in Slovakia to plot the bloc's future without Britain, Angela Merkel said Thursday.

"We must give priority to security and so let's start setting up a joint European army", Orban said.

Meanwhile, the CPMR, a Rennes-based maritime organisation, has called on the European Commission to put regions and citizens "at the heart of plans to reshape and rebuild the European project, particularly during this period of crisis".

Migration policy is another highly controversial issue on the agenda, with eastern members the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia refusing to take in refugees under an EU-wide quota system championed by Berlin. One of the main topics was to discuss Britain's vote to leave the group.

She praised the initiative to hold the forthcoming summit in Bratislava, saying that nearly always holding meetings in Brussels "perhaps has something to do with us sometimes lacking a bit in closeness to life and to a feeling for what makes Europe".

Finally the group gave a signal to the youth of Europe who may also be tired of the mass migration policies of the establishment calling for them to defend themselves through peaceful action against mass migration, increasing Islamisation and governments who they say break the rules and the laws whenever it suits them.

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Germany's Merkel in Poland for talks on EU future, migrants