EU - Turkey Agreement on Refugee Crisis

From the summer of 2015, Europe and particularly EU is facing the worst refugee crisis since the WWII. Thousands of people have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea on the routes from Libya to Italy and from Turkey to Greece. The civil war in Syria and the rise of ISIS in many countries in Middle East have forced millions of people to left their homes, searching for better living conditions in different parts of the world and especially in Europe which is one of the most tolerant and democratic societies in the world. The influx of irregular migrants, especially from the Turkish coasts to the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, was huge and according to the evidence more than one million people passed through this route to Europe last year. EU and Turkey reached an agreement on refugees on 18 March 2016. The core of this agreement was the steam of the influx of irregular migrants by Turkey and EU re-energized the relations with Turkey and the accession process in return. This agreement and how the two parties concluded to this is the main subject of this book.

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Georgios Stathopoulos is a MSc graduate in International Relations & European Studies from Aalborg University, Denmark. He holds a bachelor degree in Social Policy & Administration from Democritus University, Greece. He is a member of Hellenic Association of Social Policy with profound interest in International relations and political analysis.