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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Refugees and the European Union – Politics Weekly podcast

Patrick Kingsley, Alex Duval Smith and Jennifer Rankin join Tom Clark to discuss Europe’s response to the refugee crisis on its southern shores; the EU’s deal with Turkey and the future of the continent’s asylum system Last year, more than a million refugees came across Europe’s borders. European countries first scrambled to provide shelter, then provided onward transport and eventually began to erect fences. Now a deal with Turkey appears to have slowed the influx of migrants into Greece. Continue reading...


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