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DONALD TUSK —
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HAPPY FRIDAY
https://twitter.com/EUCouncilPress/status/654788120496377857
JUNCKER: “We agreed tonight on exact content of the joint EU-Turkey Action Plan on the refugee crisis. Will negotiate financial support now.”” We agreed with Turkish partners on acceleration of visa liberalization but without stepping away from basic criteria.”
ONE DAY SUMMIT
https://twitter.com/SpiegelPeter/status/654784627081502720
Euco over. Soon press conference
— Preben Aamann (@PrebenEUspox) October 15, 2015
PERMANENT PROBLEM
POLITICO’s Jacopo Barigazzi and Maïa de La Baume report:
EU leaders are once again split over the question of whether to work toward instituting a permanent relocation scheme for refugees. Discussion on the issue — a bone of contention since it was first proposed by the European Commission in May — has slowed progress toward agreement on a summit conclusion.
Sources said Sweden and Germany pushed for a line in the final summit conclusions referring to Jean-Claude Juncker’s State of the Union speech call for a “permanent relocation mechanism, which will allow us to deal with crisis situations more swiftly in the future.”
But Eastern European countries in the Visegrad group (Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia) opposed including any reference to a permanent relocation scheme.
In a statement issued before the beginning of the summit, the Visegrad group said that any measures that put the Union’s “common effort at risk, including a permanent relocation scheme, should be avoided.”
AND THE MENU IS:
POLITICO’s Zeke Turner has the menu for tonight’s dinner:
EU leaders are eating cream of pumpkin soup with scallops; Roast partridge, wild mushrooms and chicory; and, for dessert, iced chestnut parfait and moka.
SNAP ANALYSIS:
Seems very rich at this summit with lots of heavy flavors.
Chef was clearly drawing inspiration from autumn. This pallette — pumpkin, scallops, mushrooms, chicory and chestnut, all at once— is not very contemporary.
AND THE MENU IS:
POLITICO’s Zeke Turner has the menu for tonight’s dinner:
EU leaders are eating cream of pumpkin soup with scallops; Roast partridge, wild mushrooms and chicory; and, for dessert, iced chestnut parfait and moka.
SNAP ANALYSIS:
Seems very rich at this summit with lots of heavy flavors.
Chef was clearly drawing inspiration from autumn. This pallette — pumpkin, scallops, mushrooms, chicory and chestnut, all at once— is not very contemporary.
AND THE MENU IS:
POLITICO’s Zeke Turner has the menu for tonight’s dinner:
EU leaders are eating cream of pumpkin soup with scallops; Roast partridge, wild mushrooms and chicory; and, for dessert, iced chestnut parfait and moka.
SNAP ANALYSIS: Seems very rich at this summit with lots of heavy flavors.
Chef was clearly drawing inspiration from autumn. This pallette — pumpkin, scallops, mushrooms, chicory and chestnut, all at once— is not very contemporary.
COMIC RELIEF
https://twitter.com/GeorgiGotev/status/654732588880236544
UH-OH … THIS DOESN’T SOUND PROMISING
"I hope that when we meet next time, #Schengen will still be around", @TaaviRoivas said at #EUCO #migration #refugeecrisis
— Ondrej Houska (@OndrejHouska) October 15, 2015
DINNER WILL BE SERVED
https://twitter.com/PrebenEUspox/status/654734634710794241
SOURCE: SHOW ME THE MONEY
A German diplomat told POLITICO’s Zeke Turner: “All items [concerning the deal with Turkey] are problematic,” referring to a liberalized visa regime and money to help protect Turkey’s borders.
“They want to give €3 billion. They don’t have €3 billion,” the source said. “Where do they want to get it from?”
Here’s our article on the Turkey deal in the making: http://politi.co/1MEGrqt
EU-TURKEY’S TENTATIVE DEAL
Agreement includes €3 billion in aid and a promise to speed up visa liberalization.
Jacopo Barigazzi reports:
The EU has reached a tentative deal with Turkey that offers up to €3 billion in aid and a promise to speed up visa liberalization for Turkish citizens traveling to Europe in exchange for help coping with the flow of Syrian refugees through the country, according to diplomatic sources.
Europe’s relationship with Turkey is one of the main points under discussion at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels on the migration crisis, along with a call to countries to cooperate on external border controls and open their wallets to help Europe deal with a huge influx of refugees from the Middle East.
“There is an agreement to be finalized on a negotiated action plan, meaning that the text the EU presented last week has been changed, quite a bit,” a source close to the talks with Turkey said, referring to a wide-ranging proposal from the European Commission to Ankara earlier this month.
Read the full story: http://politi.co/1MEGrqt