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The Greek/Turkish border stand-off: 'There is no appetite in the EU to accept another large scale influx akin to 2015-16' (Photo: Google Maps)

Now in EU interest to work with Turkey on migration

The European Union is facing the prospect of renewed migration crisis after Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared he would "open the gates" and allow the over four million refugees living in Turkey to freely travel to Europe.

Josep Borrell, the EU's high representative for foreign affairs, has called an emergency meeting of European foreign ministers to discuss the situation this week.

But the EU's reluctance to take in hundreds of thousands more refugees means the

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Luigi Scazzieri is a research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, concentrating on European foreign and security policy, Italy and the EU, transatlantic relations, and migration.

The Greek/Turkish border stand-off: 'There is no appetite in the EU to accept another large scale influx akin to 2015-16' (Photo: Google Maps)

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Luigi Scazzieri is a research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, concentrating on European foreign and security policy, Italy and the EU, transatlantic relations, and migration.

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