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The Latest: French president meets central European leaders

British Prime Minister Theresa May walks between EU flags as she arrives for an EU summit at the Europa building in Brussels on Friday, June 23, 2017. European Union leaders meet in Brussels on the final day of their two-day summit to focus on ways to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean and how to uphold free trade while preventing dumping on Europe's markets. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
British Prime Minister Theresa May walks between EU flags as she arrives for an EU summit at the Europa building in Brussels on Friday, June 23, 2017. European Union leaders meet in Brussels on the final day of their two-day summit to focus on ways to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean and how to uphold free trade while preventing dumping on Europe's markets. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) British Prime Minister Theresa May walks between EU flags as she arrives for an EU summit at the Europa building in Brussels on Friday, June 23, 2017. European Union leaders meet in Brussels on the final day of their two-day summit to focus on ways to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean and how to uphold free trade while preventing dumping on Europe's markets. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

BRUSSELS (AP) – The Latest on the European Union summit (all times local):

9:30 a.m.

French President Emmanuel Macron is meeting with central and eastern European leaders amid tensions over jobs and resistance to taking in refugees.

The meeting Friday on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels is hitting on two of the most thorny subjects within the EU.

Macron’s office says he sought a separate meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Poland’s Beata Szydlo, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico.