How do Greeks dare say that Turkey is not a safe country to return Syrian asylum seekers? The Europeans in Brussels disagree and are frustrated that the deportations do not proceed with the fast pace they had in mind and put pressure on Athens to replace members on its asylum appeals board. They could also be frustrated and put pressure on EU-member states to fulfill the quote of 6,000 relocations per month from Greece and Italy but that’s subject of another post.

Pressure from the European Council is that Greece should replace judges from the three member asylum appeals body. And so it will happen.