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Thursday, 2 December 2010

So what happens when/if Turkey joins the EU?

The Telegraph reports that:
'Illegal migration has dropped at borders all over the EU in the first nine months of the year except for Greece's frontier with Turkey, where five times as many illegal crossings were detected, the EU border agency said.

Illegal border crossings decreased by 99 per cent in Spain's Canary islands in this period and by two-thirds in Italy, under the combined effect of Europe's economic crisis and repatriation deals signed with African countries.

But arrivals of illegal migrants jumped by an annual 369 per cent to over 31,000 at Greece's land border with Turkey in the nine months to September, the Frontex border agency said.

Frontex Deputy Executive Director Gil Arias-Fernandez said the Greek-Turkey border had become for many a safer and cheaper route to the EU rather than crossing the Mediterranean.'
So what happens when the EU and its servant states allow Turkey to join the EU?

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