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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11465
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EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) turkey

Timmermans says migrant flows to EU are much too high

Brussels, 11/01/2016 (Agence Europe) - Visiting the Turkish authorities on Monday 11 January, European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans said in Ankara that he deplored Turkey's scant progress in trying to stem the flow of migrants to Europe.

Timmermans estimated that the number of people still managing to disembark on the Greek islands every day was between 2,000 and 3,000 - despite the very bad winter weather conditions. This is “much too high”, he said, as reported by...

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