{Most also don’t tend to see Ankara as a trusted partner, let alone a potential member in the union.}
The majority of Germans believe that EU-Turkey deal is a bad idea and will not work properly, according to a recent poll.
Most also don’t tend to see Ankara as a trusted partner, let alone a potential member in the union.
Under a plan agreed in Brussels earlier in March, all migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey would be returned.
For each Syrian sent back, another Syrian already in Turkey would be resettled in the EU. Turkey had been offered extra funding and acceleration of EU integration talks.
While Brussels sees the deal as a principal breakthrough in tackling the crisis, in Germany — which championed the Turkey pact and has taken in over 1.1 million refugees — public perceptions appear to be different.
According to a poll released by ARD-Deutschlandtrend, 56 per cent of Germans — up from 49 per cent last month — described the deal as ‘rather bad’, compared to 39 per cent rating it ‘rather good’.
The poll was conducted between 4 and 5 April and involved 1,005 respondents.
Earlier this week, around 200 refugees arrived in Turkey after being deported from EU member Greece.
This is the first ‘one-in, one-out’ deportation aimed at stemming the flow of migrants.
However, 41 per cent of Germans do not believe that the number of arrivals will drop, marginally more than the 40 per cent who believe the scheme will work.
Meanwhile, Greece was stepping up efforts today to persuade hundreds of migrants to leave a squalid camp on its border with Macedonia where violence broke out at the weekend, officials said.
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