The European Union has agreed to send at least €3 billion (£2.5 billion/$3.6 billion) over the next few years to Turkey for Syrian migrants and to help support border security.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel met with Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan to discuss migration and thaw recent rocky relations.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has suspended a bilateral agreement with Greece allowing Athens to return migrants to Turkey, in retaliation for Greece’s failure to extradite eight Turkish officers who fled to Greece after Turkey’s failed 2016 military coup.
The European Union (EU) should keep the door open for Turkey and its Islamist leader to join the bloc, Germany’s EU minister has insisted.
The unelected European Commission is set to approve an additional three billion euros in funding for Turkey, the second part of a deal whereby they make efforts to stem the flow of migrants from the Middle East.
Pro-migrant NGOs working at asylum centres on the Greek islands in the Aegean are calling for the government to release the migrants to the mainland citing poor conditions and overcrowding in the asylum camps.
European Union countries are taking in far more migrants from Turkey than required by the migrant agreement, with Germany taking in more than a third of the migrants.
Turkish politician and former parliamentary deputy Ümit Özdag claims Europe could see three million migrants arrive on the continent as the EU-Turkey migrant agreement breaks down.
Austria’s increasingly hard-line Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has made it known that unless Turkey reforms on issues of freedom and human rights, Austria will block any European Union membership negotiations. The Foreign Minister announced his intentions to block Turkish membership talks
(Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that the European Union has failed to fulfil its pledge to provide 3 billion euros of aid for migrants, a criticism that the EU said was “not correct and not helpful”.
(REUTERS) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday said the European Union needed to establish migrant deals with African countries such as Egypt and Tunisia along the lines of the agreement it already has with Turkey.
Austrian Foreign Minster Sebastian Kurz claims that Europe has “lost control” of its borders and proposes harsher measures toward people smugglers and migrants. Speaking at a meeting of European Union (EU) officials in Luxembourg on Monday, Mr. Kurz said: “We have
GENEVA, June 17 (Reuters) – Medical aid charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said it will reject all funding from the European Union and its member states in protest at a deal to stem the influx of migrants and refugees that the EU
The European Union Commissioner for migration has admitted that there are three million migrants in Turkey waiting to enter Europe. European Union (EU) Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos admitted that while on a visit to Athens on Monday there are approximately three million migrants waiting
As Turkey threatens yet again to end the migrant deal with the European Union, Austria prepares for the worst. Turkey has made yet another threat toward the migrant deal negotiated between Ankara and the European Union (EU) that has significantly decreased the number
A new report claims that Turkey is only sending the least qualified and the sick to Europe while preventing the highly skilled and academics from leaving. A new report has come out from several member nations of the European Union (EU)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again threatened that migrants will resume crossing into Europe if visa-free travel demands are not met. It has been a turbulent week in Turkey after the resignation of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, and the
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan told the European Union on Friday, Turkey would not make changes to its terrorism laws required under a deal to curb migration, and declared: “we’re going our way, you go yours”. His fiery speech
German Deputy Chancellor Horst Seehofer has warned against the proposed visa-free entry for Turkish citizens, saying Turkey will only bring its problems to Europe. Seehofer, who is the head of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) and coalition partner of German
The European Union (EU) has bowed to pressure from Turkey over an EU funded art project on the Armenian genocide. The government in Turkey has sought to force the European Commission to cancel funding to the art project “Aghet.” The
The landmark EU-Turkey migrant summit deal may already be failing as Greece decides to postpone deportations in large migrant camps. There were no deportations of migrants from the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday because, according to the Greeks, there
The Greek government deported more than 200 migrants back to Turkey early Monday morning, the first enactment of a recent agreement between the European Union (EU) and Turkey meant to curb migration via the “Balkan route” into Europe. European police
