Angela Merkel has admitted the beleaguered European Union is in a critical situation and needs to solve its problems as she arrived for the Bratislava Summit.
As the embattled German supremo attempts to recover from a battering to her popularity, she appeared to change her tune and called for the crumbling bloc to take "concrete steps" to improving the economy and combating terrorism.
Speaking before the Bratislava gathering, Mrs Merkel said: "We are in a critical situation, but I hope that we can show through actions that we can improve economic certainty, combat terrorism and offer more job places. The digital agenda will be important too."
Mrs Merkel’s disastrous migrant policy has been blamed for the leader’s crashing popularity after she took a battering in her home state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania when her party was pushed into third place by the anti-immigrant Alternative for Deutschland (AfD).
But the deluded German chancellor has repeatedly defended her government’s handling of the huge number of people who crossed into her country, by saying they had managed to make improvements.
She continued: "Protecting Europe’s outside borders will also be discussed, but this will all be decided in the coming months, we can then also take concrete steps. Juncker showed in his speech that the European Commission has similar plans.
"I hope that today we can show that we can work together in the EU and that we can solve problems."
It comes after EU Council President Donald Tusk called for EU bosses to take a "sober and brutally honest" look at the bloc's problems ahead of the meeting
Source: NNA
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