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Cameron: EU deal with Turkey to significantly reduce migrant flow
David Cameron welcomed the EU deal with Turkey saying that it could “significantly” reduce numbers of migrants crossing the eastern Mediterranean to enter Greece by boat.
Mr. Cameron said the arrangement was “a plan to break the link between getting on a boat and getting settlement in Europe…. a plan to bust the business model of the smugglers”, as Reuters reports.
Request on tax scale causes tension among IMF and gov’t
A comment made by a source of Greek Finance Ministry attacking IMF for its requirements on tax scale will probably cause a rift between the Greek government and Greece’s lenders.
The IMF seeks to reduce the tax-free income level for everyone applying this measure even to incomes above 40,000 euros.
EU, Turkey Leaders Agree on Migrant Crisis Deal
The European Council has said an agreement was reached between all 28 countries of the bloc and Turkey on a deal that is expected to ease pressure that hundreds of thousands of migrants have been applying on Europe over the past year.
Now unanimous agreement between all EU HoSG and Turkey's PM on EU-Turkey Statement
? Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) March 18, 2016
Turkey set to take back illegal migrants from Greece as of March 20: Turkish official
Turkey is set to begin taking back illegal migrants crossing into Greece as of March 20, and the returns will start as of April 4, a senior Turkish official has said.
EU, Turkey strike deal on Syrian migrants, visa
A deal between the European Union and Turkey to curb the huge flow of asylum seekers to Europe has been agreed upon by the parties, the EU president said on March 18.
Brussels and Ankara sealed a deal to return migrants arriving across the Aegean to Europe, EU Council President and summit chairman Donald Tusk confirmed.
New incident breaks out among refugees at Piraeus port
About 50 Afghan and Syrian refugees, who are staying at the passenger terminals in Piraeus port , started fighting each other over charging their mobile phones, while one refugee was slightly injured and two people were arrested.
Port authorities intervened and managed to separate the refugees.
Idomeni ‘modern Dachau’, says Greek Interior Minister Kouroublis
Greek Interior Minister Panagiotis Kouroublis likened the situation in the Idomeni refugee camp in northern Greece to a ‘modern Dachau’. Kouroublis promised he would everything he could to offer health coverage to the refugees trapped in the camp.
EU will reach deal with Turkey, says EU's Schulz
European Parliament President Martin Schulz has said the EU would reach an agreement with Turkey, as Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu is in Brussels to attend a EU-Turkey summit to find a solution to the migrant crisis that has hit the bloc.
3,000 refugees arrive in Italy in 3 days (videos)
Over 3,000 refugees arrived in Italy from Tuesday till Friday, according to the country’s authorities. Italian officials say the majority of the refugees are from sub-Saharan Africa and crossed the Mediterranean Sea from Libya. The good weather conditions and the blocking of the Balkan route were the main reasons of a spite in numbers over the past 3 days via Libya-to Italy.
EU Leaders to Present Their Common Position on Migrant Deal to Turkey
The heads of state or government of the member states of the EU agreed on a joint position which will be presented to Turkey in attempt to reach a deal on stemming the migrant influx into Europe.
The EU leaders agreed the common position at the meeting of the European Council in Brussels, which began on Thursday and is continuing on Friday.
Refugees lynch pedophile at Idomeni camp (photos+video)
Violent clashes broke out at the Idomeni refugee camp in northern Greece and the port of Piraeus, as tensions are running high with the numbers of refugees and illegal immigrants arriving swarming.
EU Summit on refugee: Europe will not leave Greece alone
While the European Union meeting on refugee is still in progress, EU sources say that European Council President Donald Tusk presented a new plan based on which the talks will continue today.
The plan provides European Union to support Greece at technical level, so as to legitimize and make sustainable the mechanism for the readmission of refugees and immigrants to Turkey.
FYROM soldiers threaten Greek photographers in Greece’s territory
FYROM’s policemen and soldiers threatened Greek photographers in Idomeni who were trying to take photos of the points of the fence where FYROM authorities pushed the immigrants, who entered the country, back to Greece.
EU-Turkey meeting: Ankara is not holding us hostage, say Europeans
The EU summit on the refugee crisis begins in a reluctant atmosphere, with President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė saying that the agreement to be reached with Turkey would be “complex and at the limits of international law”.
Arriving at the meeting, Mrs. Grybauskaitė told reporters that “we will agree on something. We will negotiate with the same conditions agreed last week”.
Bulgaria, Macedonia to Hold Joint Border Policing Operations amid Migration Crisis
Balkan neighbours Bulgaria and Macedonia have agreed to conduct joint air and land operations for border control and protection in the context of the migration crisis in the coming days, the government in Sofia announced on Thursday.
The agreement was reached in a telephone conversation between Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov.