Berlin: Malcolm Turnbull and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have discussed submarines, people smuggling, and the humanitarian crisis caused by the Syrian civil war in their first ever one-on-one talks held on Friday in the German capital. While they canvassed the refugee crisis, Mr Turnbull expressly declined to "advise" European governments on their management of the refugee challenge, a refusal seen as a pointed repudiation of the recent speech of Tony Abbott in London where he warned that good intentions were leading the European continent into "catastrophic error". And, they've agreed that bombing achieves only so much and that the west must focus more attention...
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