The announcement comes ahead of a visit to Ankara by the EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn on Friday.
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Even though most Syrian refugees go through a registration process, the European Union said about 90 percent of them remain outside of camps deprived of basic services.
“The key element which we agreed to was that we talk more to each other and a little bit less about each other, showing full respect”, Mogherini said after talks with Turkey s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and EU Minister Omer Celik.
The EU is against military coups both in the Union’s members and neighbors, the TRT Haber news channel quoted the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini as saying September 9.
Tsipras met French President Francois Hollande, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and leaders from Portugal, Cyprus and Malta in Athens to discuss the bloc migration and debt crises. “Europe’s future is our future”, he said. Whilst the monthly cash-transfer under this programme will reach the most vulnerable families among registered Syrian refugees in Turkey, a referral system will be put in place to address the needs of other persons of concern, too. But numbers have declined dramatically since Balkan nations fenced off their borders and the EU-Turkey deal took effect in March.
The deal also allows for the acceleration of Turkey’s European Union membership bid and visa-free travel for Turkish nationals within the Schengen area, on the condition that Ankara meets 72 requirements set by the EU.
Plans to loosen visa rules came to a standstill after Turkey voiced reluctance to amend anti-terrorism laws that were part of a list of criteria the country is required to fulfill.
“In the name of Europe, its southern members are facing difficulties on the migration issue”.
“So they must be helped, reinforced, so that we can allow for asylum seekers, but so there can also be an efficient control of immigration”. But a Greek government spokesman on immigration said Athens is rejecting the reactivation of the so-called Dublin Regulation, which would allow other European Union members to send asylum-seekers back to Greece.
The Package could be an attractive incentive for Turkey to join the EU. “It will lessen the suffering but also restore some normality to children, women and men whose lives have been turned upside down by conflict and displacement”, said the WFP’s Executive Director, Ertharin Cousin, in a statement.
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Turkish and Greek Cypriots are having talks since May 2015 for reunification of the island, which was split along ethnic lines since 1974 after interference by Turkey in response to a short-lived Greek Cypriot coup.
