During meeting with Merkel, EU leaders agree to focus on unity

RIGA - During Sunday’s meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, Latvian Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis, and three other European leaders decided that at present it is vital to concentrate on issues which bring EU residents together, rather than those which drive them apart.

Also present at the dinner were the prime ministers of Cyprus, Malta, and Portugal.

As Kucinskis' press secretary Andrejs Vaivars told BNS, all of the leaders in attendance were in agreement that matters important to EU citizens must be solved, such as economic development, internal and external security, and the reinforcement of external borders.

Kucinskks noted that the EU must deal with problems of economic development and the implementation of free-market principles.

The officials also talked over issues related to the upcoming informal meeting of EU ministers in Bratislava, the EU's development, and the effects of the Brexit referendum.