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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11516

22 March 2016
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha
Slightly cooler welcome and nagging doubts over legality of EU/Turkey agreement

Brussels, 21/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - The agreement reached between the EU and Turkey on Friday 18 March (see EUROPE 11515) has caused somewhat mixed reactions, with NGOs lamenting infringements of European asylum law and a number of groups from the EP, first and foremost the EPP and S&D, hailing it as a “positive” step.

One of the strongest warnings, however, came from the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Niels Muiznieks, who said that in the wake of this...

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SECTORAL POLICIES
ECONOMY - FINANCE
EXTERNAL ACTION
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
NEWS BRIEFS
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT