The future of the EU’s migration deal is very much up in the air, largely because the increasingly authoritarian and megalomaniacal style of Erdogan makes in increasingly difficult for Germany or any other self respecting European power to work with him. The Financial Times:
Angela Merkel has condemned the move by Turkey’s legislature to strip nearly a third of its lawmakers of parliamentary immunity, in a sign of the increasingly fractious relations between Ankara and Berlin that pose a risk to the recent landmark deal to stem the flow of refugees into Europe.In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, …read more
Source: The American Interest