"There is a clear need for southern EU states to coordinate their position in order to counterbalance the Visegrad bloc," says analyst George Pagoulatos.
Even so, Friday's meeting is unlikely to bang the austerity revision drum too loudly to avoid antagonising Berlin, which has otherwise proven very sympathetic to southern states on migration, Pagoulatos notes."Germany is favourable to coordination on migration, but not to the formation of a southern anti-austerity front," he said.
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