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Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Europe bribes Turkey – POLITICO

Europe bribes Turkey

Throwing money at Ankara won’t resolve this refugee crisis.
By

Guy Verhofstadt

12/1/15, 5:27 AM CET

Updated 12/1/15, 11:14 PM CET

The EU-Turkey summit was far from the European Union’s finest hour.

The conclusions of the summit on Sunday were weak and mark another worrying setback in Europe’s fight to tackle its refugee crisis. Rather than put in place the concrete European response necessary to deal with the challenges we face, EU countries had hoped that a new EU-Turkey agreement could be used to help stem the flow of refugees and economic migrants arriving in Greece.

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