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The Latest: EU rejects migrant policy overhaul after attacks

A man and a woman hold their children after arriving on a dinghy from a Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015. More than 810,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean this year, and over 200,000 in October alone. Four out of five this year have crossed from Turkey to Greece. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
A man and a woman hold their children after arriving on a dinghy from a Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015. More than 810,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean this year, and over 200,000 in October alone. Four out of five this year have crossed from Turkey to Greece. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios) A man and a woman hold their children after arriving on a dinghy from a Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015. More than 810,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean this year, and over 200,000 in October alone. Four out of five this year have crossed from Turkey to Greece. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) – The latest news as hundreds of thousands make their way across Europe in search of safety and a better life. All times local.

2:55 p.m.

A top European Union official says the bloc’s refugee policy does not need to be overhauled in the wake of the Paris attacks and is urging world leaders not to start treating asylum-seekers as terrorists.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Sunday that “those who organized these attacks, and those who carried them out, are exactly those who the refugees are fleeing.”

Juncker told reporters at the G20 summit in Turkey that “there is no need to revise the European Union’s entire refugee policy.”