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  • The EU and Turkey are close to a groundbreaking migrant deal.

  • What does it mean for Turkey?

  • It's certainly something that will enable everyone in Turkey

  • to project how important they are now for the European Union.

  • In EU, that had * over the last 7 or 8 years.

  • The Middle East policy which was strikingly delusional

  • rested on the idea of the revival of a near * Middle East led by Mr. Edward lies in ruins,

  • and that's partly why they are looking for a new relationship with the EU.

  • But one in which as they would say in Brussel,

  • it's the Europeans now who are the demanders not the Turk, banging at the door of Brussel.

  • Is the deal a victory for Angela Merkel?

  • It does, it seems to me take some of the gathering political pressure off Mrs. Merkel at home

  • and in the rest of Europe, particularly ahead of regional elections in the coming days.

  • But so much about this deal still rests on the ability to implement,

  • and that's really far from clear.

  • These are liberalization is likely to be very contentious and reopening at session negotiation

  • is likely to be problematic for long as there are in *, particularly from Cyprus.

  • What does the deal with Turkey say about the state of the European Union?

  • This is a deal gone out of desperation with a country which has turned * under Mr. Edogawa.

  • I mean, he's only just closed a major opposition press group.

  • The reporters without borders, the media NGO, places Turkey at 149 in its league table.

  • The press freedom that places is just above the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Russia

  • It's not a pretty deal and it isn't likely to look prettier as the weeks go by.

The EU and Turkey are close to a groundbreaking migrant deal.

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