(I was going to put this into my Turkey Mega Topic, however I felt this was more an impact on the EU over Turkey.)

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The European Commission has given its support to a visa-free travel deal with Turkey after Ankara threatened to back out of a landmark migration deal. It is proposed to lift visa requirements by the end of June.

The decision was confirmed by European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager on Twitter.

"The European Commission is today proposing to... lift the visa requirements for the citizens of Turkey," Vestager tweeted.

According to the adopted document, visa-free travel will apply to all EU member states except for Ireland and the UK, who have their own visa requirements, and to the four Schengen-associated countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland).

"The exemption concerns only short stays of up to 90 days (in any 180-day period) for business, tourist or family purposes, among others. The visa exemption does not provide for the right to work in the EU," the document said.

In April, Turkey threatened to back out of the migration agreement with the EU, unless travel rules were eased for Turkish citizens when entering the EU. The deal went into effect on March 21.

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This actually really pissed me off when I read this. The whole deal with Turkey to help stem migrants was botched from the beginning. It was estimated the EU would get about 1 million something more refugees this year alone, and another couple million in the next few years. Now, the EU is going to get flooded with a possible 70 million Turks. The problem I have with it, is they just think that after the 90 day period, the people visiting will go back home, even though so many people abuse Visa's, even from Western countries and stay there much longer. On top of that, it's Turkey, who have been shown to give passports to ISIS militants, at this point the EU is just letting Turkey flood the EU with possible terrorists and some people who will no doubt abuse the visa system. No, this doesn't affect me as in I don't live in Europe right now and I never lived in an EU country, but the fact that such a deal was passed along, is ridiculous.