EU and Turkey want to seal off Aegean together
According to a report plan EU and Turkey to secure the Greek border by Frontex operations. Turkey should take up to two million more refugees.
The EU Commission has drawn up according to a report with Turkey an action plan to curb the inflow of refugees to Europe. Accordingly, the Turkish Government undertakes to secure the border with Greece better, as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS)reported, citing sources in the European Commission and the Federal Government. It is planned that the Turkish and Greek coast guard patrol together in the eastern Aegean. The EU border agency Frontex will coordinate operations. As it continues, the patrols should work against smuggling and traced back all the refugees in Turkey.
Of the approximately 350,000 refugees who crossed the Aegean Sea this year, only about 50,000 were taken up by the Turkish coast guard. On the one hand was Turkey, which has so far received about two million refugees from Syria, unwilling to stop more people. On the other hand the situation in the eastern Aegean Sea is extremely complex, because the sea border between Turkey and Greece is controversial. To avoid political confrontation, therefore, should jointly monitor the waters for a distance of more than a hundred kilometers Greek and Turkish ships. All rescued refugees should first be brought to Turkey.
In Turkey also are six new refugee camp for up to two million people are formed, which are co-financed by the EU. At least 250 million euros in addition, the refugee agency of the United Nations should get out of the EU, they say. The EU Commission expects Turkey that it also improves the integration of refugees, which includes in particular the opening of the labor market.
As a solution to the refugee crisis may appear, discussed the UN General Assembly:
The EU member states should commit themselves also part of the refugees - up to 500,000 people - take. These could then be resettled in Europe without smuggling and the dangerous path of the Mediterranean Sea, the FAS.
This plan has been negotiated, the European Commission and representatives of the Turkish government in the past week. President Jean-Claude Juncker agreed, according to FAS closely with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande from.The move thus forms the basis of the discussions of EU top representatives with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday in Brussels.
If both sides undertake it politically - what is expected in Brussels - the plan is to be concretized until the next EU summit in mid-October and then implemented as soon as possible. The main objective of the Commission is to bring the chaotic situation in the Greek islands and on the Balkan route to spring back under control. This is the main escape route to Germany. In September alone, tens of thousands chose this route, mainly Syrians, Afghans and Pakistanis also.
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