Baku-APA. Italy's foreign minister says the European Union and Turkey can find a compromise to an impasse threatening the future of a deal to stop thousands of migrants from crossing the Aegean Sea into Greece, APA reports quoting The New York Times.
The EU has agreed to provide Turkey 3 billion euros in 2017 and 2017, to fast-track EU membership talks and to ease visa restrictions for Turkish citizens in return for Turkey's cooperation in stopping migrants. The visa deal, however, has stalled over Turkey's refusal to meet an EU demand that it relax its anti-terrorism laws.
Foreign Minister Paulo Gentiloni said during a joint news conference with his Turkish counterpart Thursday that the EU should be "open" to relaxing its conditions without "renouncing its principles." He says the deal with Turkey had been successful in curbing the flow of migrants — and could be a model for tackling migrant influxes elsewhere in the Mediterranean.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu complained that the EU was slow in disbursing the funds to improve the lives of the nearly 3 million Syrian refugees in Turkey.
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