A View from Central Europe: Will the EU deal with Turkey work?

On March 17-18, EU leaders will gather for yet another summit hoping to finalize the proposed agreement with Turkey to cut off the flow of migrants and refugees into Europe. Meanwhile, this tentative deal pushed through Chancellor Merkel  has run into increasing difficulties. As Merkel is coping with political fallout from Sunday’s regional elections, in which her party suffered significant losses while an anti-immigration party surged in all three contested German states, formal objections to the migration deal have piled up from at least six EU member states.

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