Europe’s illusory migration deal with Turkey
Angela Merkel 11 Mar, 5:00 PM
Economy
Chancellor Angela Merkel surprised her European partners on March 8 by negotiating a new and supposedly far-reaching deal with Turkey in which Turkey is to be rewarded for helping to stanch the flow of migrants from the Middle East into Europe. But as Donald Trump would know, the best sort of deal in politics occurs when someone gets something in return for what that party would have done anyway — or manages to alter the facts on the ground without doing much in return. By that standard, Merkel appears to have salvaged a European solution to the migration crisis. But it is the European border vision of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban, not hers, that is quickly being implemented.
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