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Turkey wants to participate in EU summits (Photo: orangejack)

EU hopes Turkey deal will keep out African migrants

EU interior ministers on Thursday (24 February) gave the green light to a readmission agreement with Turkey which they hope may help stem irregular migration into the EU from the Middle East and Africa. Visa-free travel, despite calls from Ankara, remains a distant prospect.

"Some 80,000 illegal migrants come through the Greek-Turkish border every year. If we adopt this agreement speedily, we can reduce some of the pressure there," Hungarian interior minister Sandor Pinter, who chaired ...

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Turkey wants to participate in EU summits (Photo: orangejack)

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