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Migrant crisis threatens EU's "functioning and purpose"

The head of French diplomacy Laurent Fabius said the refugee crisis called into question the functioning and purpose of Europe.

"Europe has experienced other crises. But this one, somehow, has called into question its reason for being and its very functioning," Fabius said in an interview for the dailies Le Figaro, La Tribune de Geneve, El Pais, La Repubblica, and Le Soir.

France suspends honorary consul in Turkey over boat sales to migrants

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Sept. 11 suspended an honorary consul in Turkey for selling boats to migrants.
 
"The minister has just ordered her suspension," the foreign ministry told AFP following a television report showing the woman in her sailing goods shop in the Turkish resort town of Bodrum.