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Default Migrant crisis: EU on its toes to save embattled deal with Turkey

BRUSSELS - European leaders on Wednesday scrambled to salvage an under-fire draft deal with Turkey to ease the migrant crisis with a round of shuttle diplomacy on the eve of a crunch summit.


The 28-member bloc, divided and desperate to end the biggest refugees influx in Europe since World War II, is pinning its hopes on an agreement with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Under the plan hailed as a “game-changer”, Turkey would seek to stop the dangerous sea journeys of refugees to reach Europe and take back illegal migrants from Greece. For each Syrian it takes back, it would send one on to the European Union (EU) in a more orderly redistribution programme.


The proposed deal, which would offer Turkey eased visa requirements in the passport-free Schengen zone and would accelerate long stalled EU accession talks, has drawn heavy fire on several fronts. Cyprus has threatened to torpedo the plan over its territorial dispute with Turkey, invoking last-ditch talks between European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and President Nicos Anastasiades ahead of the Brussels summit starting on Thursday. The United Nations (UN) rights chief has also questioned the legality of any collective expulsions of asylum seekers from Greece.



Source: DAILY TIMES
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