Will the EU’s Bargain with Turkey Last?
In the wake of the EU’s refugee bargain with Turkey this weekend, NPR provides a useful summary of what Turkey will get in exchange for clamping down on refugee outflows:
Under the terms of the deal, the E.U. will provide three billion euros, or $3.2 billion dollars, in aid for the approximately 2.2 million Syrian refugees in Turkey. In addition, Turkish citizens could be allowed to travel visa-free in Europe as early as October 2016. And talks on Turkey potentially joining the European Union will be restarted.
But will it hold? The money certainly will—as Walter Russell Mead wrote on Wednesday, Erdogan knew the Europeans were desperate and took full advantage.
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