Reached the agreement with Turkey al Brussels EU summit on migrants: the president of the European Council Donald Tusk has closed a general agreement with the Turkish premier, Ahmet Davutoglu, signed by the 28 EU countries.
The key to agreement is the affirmation of principle "one by one". In the sense that Europe will send back to Turkey all Syrians and irregular immigrants in general who have arrived in Greece, starting Sunday 20 March. In return, the countries of the European Union undertake to welcome and redistribute a Syrian for each rejected, taking him from the refugee camps managed by Ankara. For the moment, the ceiling is set at 72 people who can be included in all of the EU territory. The idea is that in this way we can discourage desperate people fleeing wars from crossing the Aegean. In fact, the agreement provides that whoever is stopped on the Hellenic islands will not be entitled to redistribution and therefore will remain in Turkey.
The deal closed today revolves around four stakes:
1 – The Union ensures that there will be no collective expulsions and that each individual case will be assessed as such.
2 – The departure date is fixed at 20 March. Anyone arriving in Greece from Monday will be subjected to the new "one to one" rule.
3 - Europe does not undertake to pay another three billion euros, in addition to the three already allocated. In return, he assures that payments will be swift and a good deal of appropriations will already be made this week on Turkish projects (these are not money that go directly to Erdogan's government).
4 – EU ensures swift opening of chapter 33 in Turkey's accession process. It is the “Budget”. There is no veto on this from Cyprus which, however, has blocked others.
