Is the European Union doing all it can for migrants?

Migrants walk towards the border as they run into Greek riot police at the Turkish border crossing point Pazarkule with Kastanies Greece, near Edirne, March 6, 2020. REUTERS / Marko Djurica

By: Guillaume Naudin

They should have ended up in Istanbul, but the coronavirus pandemic decided otherwise. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel talked to each other by videoconference.

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On the menu for discussions by the Turkish and French presidents and the German chancellor, the migrants to whom Turkey has made it possible to head for Europe and who find themselves stuck in front of a Greek border which is now closed by two turns, so as not to relive the 2015 migration crisis, and to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. Between border protection, asylum and humanitarian concerns, is Europe doing what it has to do on the issue of migrants?

With:
- Virginie Guiraudon , research director at CNRS, stationed at the European Studies Center at Sciences-Po Paris Telephone
- Emmanuel Blanchard , one of the co-founders of the Migreurop network (2002), president of 2015-2019. He is still an active activist today.

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  • European Union
  • Immigration
  • Coronavirus

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