PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday likened rising nationalism and anti-migrant sentiment in Europe to "leprosy."

On a visit to Brittany three days before a meeting of European leaders to try to resolve the continent's migrant crisis, Macron urged the French not to give into anti-EU sentiment.

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