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.本文旨在依托欧盟与土耳其间移民政策的历史演进脉络，对2016年3月18日的相关声明展开分析。这不过是又一阶段，与其说其展现了希腊与土耳其双边关系的紧张程度，毋宁说更凸显了欧盟与土耳其间互动的激烈程度。持续涌现的叙利亚移民潮，尤其是在乌克兰战争危机爆发后的当下，为我们深入研究这份至今仍具现实意义的声明提供了契机；该声明亦展现了欧盟为应对移民问题，在其与外部边境相关的治理层面所做出的诸多尝试与博弈。这一持续存在的挑战，因欧洲人权法院（ECtHR）与欧盟法院（CJEU）作出的相关判决而更具研究价值。