EU leaders are in Brussels on Monday to take another stab at solving the continent’s migration crisis.
The summit is expected to formally declare closed the Balkans route from Greece to Germany, and to pledge help to Athens to cope with the tens of thousands of migrants stranded there.
All eyes are on Turkey to take action to stop smugglers from sending migrants over to Europe, with backup fromNATO forces in the Aegean sea.
But EU leaders are also concerned about media freedom in Turkey after the government seized control of the country’s leading opposition newspaper last week.
European Parliament President Martin Schulz said he had told Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu that media freedom was “a non-negotiable element of our European identity” and they had differed sharply. The migrant crisis meant the EU needed to work with Turkey even if it was in “total disagreement” with its policies, he said.
Source EURONEWS
