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Officials across the continent are expecting Erdogan to square up to Brussels, reinstating the death penalty and demanding visa-free travel within the EUs Schengen area.

The increasingly authoritarian Turkish president, who narrowly won a referendum granting him more control over key areas of the government, made an agreement with the EU to home some three million migrants during the height of the migrant crisis.

But Erdogans willingness to square up to the blocs red line opposition to capital punishment has led to fears they may allow their migrant population to move into Europe.

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It follows last weeks stern warning from Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who claimed Turkey would throw away the EUs migrant deal if free movement was not granted.

The Italian leader of the socialists in the European Parliament Gianni Pittella said MEPs were concerned about building closer ties with the Islamic republic ahead of a vote on visa-free travel next week.

He said: Weve always been very reluctant to ensure a visa-free regime to Turkey as, in our opinion, Ankara does not match the democratic criteria.

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Now after the referendum our concerns are even bigger.

Meanwhile the Greek military is preparing to act on emergency plans in the event of another migrant crisis.

A senior Greek official told The Times: There was a lot of steamy, bellicose rhetoric made by Erdogan ahead of the referendum.

If he continues with belligerent policies then Greece will be the first to face the fallout.

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The fear is real but the question is whether Erdogan will risk turning into a regional pariah.

Omer Celik, Turkeys minister for EU affairs, claimed Ankara will push ahead with their visa-free travel plan and tell the EU to drop calls for reform to their hardline anti-terror legislation or face the consequences.

Mr Celik said: While legislation is being aggravated and strengthened in the face of terrorist threats across Europe, it is unrealistic to expect that Turkey should weaken its legislation.

He added: If we get a negative response from the EU we have the right to re-evaluate and suspend all of these agreements.

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As Breitbart News reported Thursday, the number of migrants arriving in Italy in the first quarter of 2017 has exceeded the previous record number by a remarkable 30 percent, and Italys infrastructure for dealing with migrants has been stretched to the breaking point.

The so-called Minniti-Orlando immigration law, named after its sponsors, Interior Minister Marco Minniti and Justice Minister Andrea Orlando, introduces several new features, such as the creation of new centers for repatriation, the elimination of the possibility of a second appeal, and a reduction of the time required for processing an asylum request.

The new law allocates 19 million euros to expedite the deportation of asylum applicants who have been turned down. The new holding centers for repatriation with a capacity of 1,600 persons will be established generally outside urban centers and close to transport infrastructure.

The new measures have been praised by leaders of conservative parties such as the Northern League, but they still do not address the fundamental problem of daily arrivals of hundreds of new immigrants by sea.

In recent weeks, Italys failure to deal with the constant flow of economic migrants leaving from North Africa has drawn considerable criticism, even from groups such as Frontex, the European agency in charge of control of the EUs borders.

In a report released in March, Frontex accused NGOs and other humanitarian organizations of providing a shuttle service for migrants from Africa to Europe, and in this way becoming accomplices of human traffickers by lowering their costs and improving their business model.

The presence of rescue vessels ready to transport migrants to Italy has created a significant pull factor, the report stated, significantly increasing the number of migrants who dare to attempt the crossing.

Migrants and refugees encouraged by the stories of those who had successfully made it in the past attempt the dangerous crossing since they are aware of and rely on humanitarian assistance to reach the EU, the report said.

Following the release of the report, an Italian public prosecutor pointed out the obvious: that rescue vessels should not be ferrying migrants to Italy in the first place, but to a nearer port, as established by international accords. Carmelo Zuccaro, the chief prosecutor of Catania (Sicily), noted that while it is not a crime to invade the waters of a foreign country to pick migrants up, it is a crime to illegally transport them to Italy.

What is punishable is bringing them to Italy without respecting the rules of engagement, which establish that vessels should take migrants to the nearest port, which is certainly not Italy, he said.

Italy will spend some 3.9 billion euros ($4.1 billion) on managing immigration this year alone, almost three times as much as in 2013.

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The current population of Sweden has just recently passed the 10 million mark and according tonew projections, the number will rise by another million within the next decade. Since 2014, the population has increasedby over 100,000 people per year, mostly due to mass migration.

In 2015 alone, Sweden took in 163,000 asylum seekers. A recent report showed the already heavily migrant-populatedsouthern city of Malmhad grown in the last year due solely to immigration.

Statistics Sweden believes the trend of mass migration will slow down in the near future. Recent statements from Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lfven, who said the previous open door policy to migrants would be over after the Stockholm terror attack last Friday, may support that analysis.

The agency claims that child births will contribute most of the new population growth in the coming years. The level of childbearing is often high among people who have recently immigrated, in particular among those who have immigrated to start a family, they note.

Life expectancy will also presumably increase. Among those born in 2017, 12 percent of the girls and just over seven percent of the boys are expected to be alive at the age of 100, the report states.

The report notes that projections of future population growth or decline are difficult to predict because of incidents like the migrant crisis, adding there could also be an increase in the number of Swedes emigrating to different countries. In 2016, 43,000 Swedes or Swedish residents moved to a different country.

In much of Europe, the birth rates of natives of each country have declined to below replacement levels. The most dramatic case has been Germany where the birth rate is estimated to be 1.38 per womanaccordingto the World Bank well below the global replacement rate of 2.33 which would maintain the current population level.

Many migrants coming to Sweden and elsewhere in Europe come from countries like Syria which has an estimated 3.0 birthrate, Iraq which has 4.6, and Afghanistan at 4.8 children per woman.

The current main migratory route into Europe through North Africa sees migrants from West African countries whose birth rates are even higher. In Nigeria, the rate is 5.7 children per woman and in countries like Niger, the birth rate is a massive 7.6 children per woman.

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