EU Moves Closer to Overcoming Migration Feud

EU Moves Closer to Overcoming Migration Feud
Migrants on an overcrowded boat call for help off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa on April 17, 2016. Patrick Bar/SOS Mediterranee via AP
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BRUSSELS—The head of the European Parliament said EU countries who refuse to host refugees could instead pay more for EU migration and development projects in Africa, signaling a possible compromise to end a bruising dispute in the bloc.

The migration feud has divided southern and eastern EU states, as well as rich destination countries such as Germany, since 2015, when more than a million refugees and migrants from the Middle East and Africa reached the bloc’s borders.