Italian Foreign Minister Paulo Gentiloni on Thursday said that the European Union and Turkey can find a compromise to an impasse threatening the future of a deal to stop thousands of migrants from crossing the Aegean Sea into Greece, the Daily Mail reported. 

Gentiloni said during a joint news conference with his Turkish counterpart Thursday that the EU should be "open" to relaxing its conditions without "renouncing its principles." 

He said the deal with Turkey had been successful in curbing the flow of migrants — and could be a model for tackling migrant influxes elsewhere in the Mediterranean.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu complained that the EU was slow in disbursing the funds to improve the lives of the nearly 3 million Syrian refugees in Turkey.

Source: MENA