Refugee crisis - breakthrough postponed

Before such reduction to take effect, the draft conclusions will have to be worked out in detail and then be implemented. Uncertainty will hence remain at least until the next summit next week. The European Union Member States will have to decide by then whether they are willing to accept Turkey’s demand for six billion euro in return for stopping the flow of migrants to Greece. Hungary has already announced its opposition. The deal is not yet sealed, even though EU-leaders now declare that “irregular flows of migrants along the Western Balkans route have now come to an end.“