At the EU-Turkey summit on Monday (7 March), the EU needed a new turn in events on migration, which were producing closed borders and a humanitarian crisis in Greece.
The practice of waving through people on the Western Balkan route to Central Europe was to be declared over and down with.
EU leaders were to push Turkey to step up its efforts to stem the flow of people towar...
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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.