Over the course of the last decade, the Balkan route has revealed itself as one of the main challenges in European migratory policy, assuming a central role as a link between Europe and its political peripheries. The migratory crisis of 2015 forced the European Union to work both on the humanitarian dimension and on a sustainable reception system. In the context of transit routes and migration fluxes, countries like Turkey emerged as strategic and political actors using their geographical position as a way to gain leverage vis-à-vis the European Union.
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