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The Twenty-Seven organize their support for Greece

3/4/2020, 6:39:17 PM


Europeans want to avoid any "extra air intake" to prevent causing a new wave of migration.

In Brussels

It is a dark week for the EU and for the von der Leyen Commission. While it will celebrate, at the beginning of next week, its one hundred days of exercise and it has just presented with great pomp the climate law, here it is caught up by the explosive question of migration. The subject is now at the top of the pile of European executive files since Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose, on Friday, to "open the doors" to relieve Turkey of the "burden" of migrants.

The objective of the Twenty-Seven is twofold. While the Turkish leader has also called on them to "support Turkish political and humanitarian solutions in Syria" , the Europeans want to show Ankara that there is no question of giving in to blackmail. On his arrival Wednesday afternoon in Brussels to participate in a meeting of European Interior Ministers convened urgently, Christophe Castaner recalled the line from Paris. “I wish to carry a message of firmness. The one of full and good application

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