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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11555
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha

Greece may consider Turkey a safe third country, says Council

Brussels, 20/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - Greece may consider Turkey a safe third country which may take back migrants whose asylum applications submitted in Greece have been rejected, the European home affairs ministers said on Friday 20 May.

“We today reassessed the situation and restated that as member states, we support Greece in the principle of being able to send back people to Turkey”, announced the Dutch Minister for Migration, Klaas Dijkhoff. He stressed that the 28 EU member...

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