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EU president and EU leaders to travel to Egypt for Tunisia-style migration deal

Three men walk as they leave the Spanish NGO Open Arms lifeguard ship after docking at Messina port, in Sicily, Italy, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. More than four hundreds migrants from Egypt, Syria, Pakistan Bangladesh, Eritrea, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, were rescued by NGO Open Arms crew members. AP - Petros Karadjias

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will visit Cairo on Sunday, 17 March, accompanied by Greek, Belgian and Italian heads of government. The aim of the visit is to a multi-faced deal that includes attempts to curb migration flows into Europe. But critics have their doubts.

Ursula von der Leyen travels with the Prime Ministers of Italy, Belgium and Greece, Giorgia Meloni, Alexander De Croo and Kyriakos Mītsotakīs, to "to advance negotiations" with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi regarding the signing of an EU-Egypt Strategic Partnership.

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