Germany’s chancellor has approach under fire for the €6bn deal that effectively passes the refugee buck back to the country’s authoritiesGerman chancellor Angela Merkel flew into southern Turkey late on Saturday to inaugurate the EU’s new aid programme for Syrians in the country,amid concerns that her visit both validates Turkey’s creeping authoritarianism and overstates the EU’s humanitarian contribution to the Syrian crisis.
Merkel, EU council president Donald Tusk and European commission vice-president Frans Timmermans attended a photocall with Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoğlu at a new refugee camp near the Turkish-Syrian border before visiting a child protection centre.
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Source: theguardian.com