Turkey demands from the EU an additional 3 billion euros for refugees. Probably these additional resources would be transferred to Ankara by 2018.
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Tusk added that illegal immigrants arriving in Greece will be turned away, including the Syrians. Turkey demands in exchange for their efforts undertaken containment refugee additional measures. Up to three billion promised Ankara in November last year have reached another three billion soon.
At the same time Turkey demands the abolition of visas for its citizens who want to travel to the Schengen countries and is already the end of June this year. They also have to be accelerated procedure for the adoption of the country to the European community.
Turkey also wants to resettle refugees directly from Turkey to the EU, so that their number corresponds to the number of illegal immigrants sent back from Greece to Turkey.
The Union is likely to accept all Turkish conditions, because is facing the biggest crisis of immigration since the end of World War II.
Most of the immigrants and refugees flood into Europe from Turkey. These people get into first to Greece, then they head to the west and north of the continent. In Turkey there are about 2.7 million refugees, most of them came there from war-torn Syria home.
Although the details of the preliminary agreement have not yet been worked out, is to be done soon, it’s Donald Tusk announced a breakthrough in solving the refugee problem. In his opinion, is the final agreement will be reached next week.
He added that this progress sends “a clear signal that the days of illegal immigration to Europe ended.”
Boasts a preliminary agreement Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who expressed the opinion that they are not true opinion that Turkey demands only further money in exchange for stopping the refugees, because Turkey now seems enormous resources on those who they are in camps in the country.
He added that the right was a combination of agreements on refugees with the progress that will be taken in the development of Ankara’s integration with the European Union.
In the corridors of Brussels said that Turkey also needs to put more resources to help Syrian refugees who have flooded into it.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called the proposals a big step towards the development of normal immigration rules. Also praised the preliminary findings of the summit, French President Francois Hollande. Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel wrote on Twitter that “Tusk endeavor to refine the final agreement on the refugees.” In turn, the British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke of a “historic breakthrough.”
Before there was the preliminary findings spokesman for the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that his country is opposed to the relocation of refugees in Europe.
Last year alone came to Europe, more than one million refugees and immigrants. Mainly they came from Turkey through Greece. Recently, however, it was this wave stopped in Greece, as Macedonia closed its borders. Similarly acted Austria passing only small groups of refugees, and the Balkan countries closed refugees route through its territory.
In October, the European Union wanted to relocate 160,000 people seeking asylum in our continent, mainly supposed to be their locations in Greece and Italy. But among the European community it was strong resistance against such plans, deployed only about 700 immigrants. Poland at the beginning would take 7 thousand. people.
Participating at the Brussels summit, Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said that Poland is able to help protect the external borders of the EU, sending police officers and border guards there.
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