Pursuits
Clooney Backs Merkel's Refugee Policy During Chancellery Chat
- Hollywood actor and wife Amal met Merkel in Berlin on Friday
- Clooney in German capital to promote new film at Berlinale
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Chancellor Angela Merkel, facing the biggest challenge of her decade in power over the refugee crisis, has a famous friend backing her open-door policy for asylum seekers.
George Clooney, in the German capital to promote his new movie at the Berlinale film festival, lent his support to the beleaguered chancellor during a 30-minute meeting at the chancellery on Friday to discuss the flood of people pouring into Europe from war-torn regions. Also attending was Clooney’s wife Amal, a Lebanese-born human rights lawyer, and David Miliband, the former British foreign secretary who heads the International Rescue Committee. Albert Einstein founded the group in 1933 to assist those fleeing the Nazis.