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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11518

24 March 2016
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha
Doubts grow over legality of EU-Turkey migration agreement

Brussels, 23/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - Further criticism emerged on Tuesday 22 March of the agreement reached by the EU and Turkey on virtually systematically returning migrants who have arrived in Greece to Turkey from 20 March (see EUROPE 11515).

In France, the country's Human Rights Defender, Jacques Toubon, told the National Assembly Law Commission on 22 March that the agreement was “not legally correct”, AFP reports.

The deal “could only be implemented if Turkey were deemed to...

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