Merkel hosts Clooney for talks on refugee policy

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday hosted George Clooney for talks on Europe's refugee influx, her spokesman said, after the Hollywood idol offered to lend star power to help with the crisis. Discussions between the German leader and Clooney, as well as his wife Amal -- a Lebanese-born human rights lawyer -- focused on "refugee policies and their involvement in the" aid group International Rescue Committee, Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert wrote on Twitter. Clooney and his wife were in German capital to attend the Berlinale film festival, which this year also puts Europe's refugee influx in the spotlight.

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