David Cameron is the first leader to pledge funds, offering Recep Tayyip Erdoğan €400m to stem flow of refugees from Syria The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and other EU leaders are racing to clinch a €3bn (£2.4bn) deal with Turkey’s autocratic president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to halt the mass influx of migrants and refugees into Europe. All 28 national EU leaders are expected to host Erdoğan at a special summit in Brussels within weeks to expedite a pact that would see Turkey patrolling the EU’s southern border with Greece and stemming the flow of hundreds of thousands of refugees, mainly from Syria. Continue reading...
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