Migration deal between the EU and Turkey is not doomed to failure, German chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.

Merkel said that the rumors said that the agreement will never take place and they should not even try. When it took place, they said that it would never work. There will be new problems, and they will say that now it became unambiguously clear that the agreement is really doomed to failure. She does not think so and does not work so.

According to her, the implementation of the agreement is a process, and the work on it will continue. She noted that while some aspects, such as the abolition of the visa regime for Turkish citizens, was delayed due to non-performance of all necessary conditions, the EU will work to overcome these difficulties.

Earlier, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan threatened to abandon the EU migration agreement, if the EU fails to provide the citizens of his country's with a visa-free regime.

In early May, the European Commission (EC) suggested European Parliament (EP) and the EU Council to remove visa restrictions for citizens of Turkey, if Ankara fulfills the remaining conditions for the abolition of visas until the end of June. These included measures to prevent corruption, negotiations on an operational agreement with Europol, judicial cooperation with all member countries, the revision of legislation on the fight against terrorism.

The official spokesperson for European Parliament President Martin Schulz told RIA Novosti that the European Parliament will begin legislative process on the issue of visa-free regime for citizens of Turkey only after Ankara fulfills all requirements without exception. Erdogan stated that Turkey will not revise the anti-terrorist legislation, and accused the EU of duplicity.