Turkey Asks EU for Additional $3B to Help Stem Migrant Flow
Source: Voice of America
Jonas Bernstein
Last updated on: March 07, 2016 1:48 PM
Ankara wants the European Union to double the aid it is is giving to Turkey to deal with the migrant crisis, the European Parliament's president said Monday.
As EU representatives discussed the crisis with their Turkish counterparts at a summit in Brussels and thousands of people remained stranded at the Greece-Macedonia border, European Parliament President Martin Schulz said Turkey had asked for an additional $3.3 billion to help curb the flow of migrants to the continent.
Last November, the EU agreed to give Ankara $3.3 billion for help in dealing with the refugee crisis.
Reuters reports a draft EU-Turkey agreement on migration says Turkey will agree to take back temporarily "all irregular migrants" arriving in the Greek islands from Turkey. In return, the EU will lift visa requirements for Turkish citizens by end the June and speed up the process for Turkey joining the EU, the news agency reported.
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