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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

EU's Juncker to meet Turkey's Davutoglu on migration deal next week

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will meet in Strasbourg next week to discuss the implementation of the migration deal between Brussels and Ankara, an EU official said. Juncker and Davutoglu are both due to speak at the plenary session of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly on April 19 and the official said they would also have a bilateral meeting on the migration pact. Earlier this month, Europe started the first returns of migrants to Turkey under the controversial deal, which is also due to cover refugees arriving from Turkey to Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.


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