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Spanish PM: Refugees Won't Be Deported From EU to Turkey En Masse

© AP Photo / Lefteris PitarakisTurkish flag flies at the refugee camp for Syrian refugees in Islahiye, Gaziantep province, southeastern Turkey,Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Turkish flag flies at the refugee camp for Syrian refugees in Islahiye, Gaziantep province, southeastern Turkey,Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - Sputnik International
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Refugees are not to be collectively deported to Turkey under the EU-Ankara deal on tackling the flow of migrants into Europe, Spain’s Acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Friday.

Refugees walk to a chartered train at the railway station of Passau, Germany, Jan. 5, 2016 - Sputnik International
Germany to Bear Main Burden of Refugee Crisis Despite EU-Turkey Deal
MADRID (Sputnik) – A two-day European Council summit on migration opened in Brussels on Thursday. EU leaders are expected to reach an agreement on the EU-Turkey action plan that envisions a one-for-one exchange of undocumented migrants for approved refugees later on Friday.

"Things are better now than in the beginning," Rajoy told reporters, as broadcast by the European Commission’s audiovisual services website. "And there will be no mass deportations, which would have contravened international law. Moreover, there will be an individual approach [taken] to people who apply for asylum."

Rajoy added that no final decision had been reached yet on the deal with Turkey.

Europe is struggling with an unprecedented migrant crisis, as hundreds of thousands refugees flee their war-torn home countries in the Middle East and North Africa in search of asylum.

Under the EU-Turkey deal, agreed in principal earlier in March, the European Union is expected to accelerate Turkey's EU accession process and introduce a visa-free regime between Turkey and Europe, as well as granting a total of 3 billion euros (over $3.3 billion) to Turkey to help it provide for refugees on its soil. Ankara has requested an additional 3 billion euros in funding through 2018.

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