EU Says Committed to Making Europe-Turkey Refugee Agreement Work
Afghan refugees in Izmir, Turkey.
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The European Commission said it is committed to the immigration deal signed with Turkey in March and will push for its successful implementation as part of the bloc’s overall program for tackling the refugee crisis.
“The commission has a Plan A and that is to make the EU-Turkey deal work successfully,” commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva told reporters in Brussels on Wednesday. “It is not a plan that we have been pursuing just since yesterday. We have had a comprehensive European agenda for migration since 2015 and we spent the last 15 months on delivering on this agenda,” she said.