Legal analysis of the EU-Turkey statement of 18 March 2016: past and future

The present paper tries to analyze the statement of 18 March 2016 through the historical path of the migration policy between EU and Turkey. This is yet another stage that shows the intensity not so much of the relations between Greece and Turkey but of EU and Turkey. The continuous flows from Syria and especially now after the crisis of the war in Ukraine allow us to investigate this statement which remains relevant to this day and shows the attempts and struggles between the EU and external borders to address the problem of migration. A continuous challenge that becomes even more interesting through the sentences coming from the ECtHR and the CJEU.