Germany's Merkel, Croatia's Plenkovic talk potential EU-Turkey agreement on Turkey's 3.5M refugees German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she and Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic have discussed a potential EU-Turkey agreement to determine a course of action on the 3,5 million refugees Turkey is hosting and pledge to "where appropriate provide further assistance." The two leaders met in the margins of the European People's Party (EPP) congress in Zagreb. Croatia takes over the EU six-month rotating presidency in January. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES