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Refugee Hotspots Allow EU, Turkey to Select Best Cheap Labor Force

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Turkey and the EU are using the hotspots to select the best cheap labor force from the refugees.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Turkey and the European Union are using the hotspots and smart borders to select the best cheap labor force from the refugees who flee violence and war in the Middle East to benefit their economies, a Greek member of the European Parliament told Sputnik.

“Not only Turkey but also throughout the EU they are seeing the refugees and migrants as cheap labor force, and they are sorting them through mechanisms such as the hotspots, the so-called "smart borders", so they can have those and how many needed for the profitability of the capital. The remaining will be crushed by the EU mechanisms against refugees,” Konstantinos Papadakis from the Communist Party of Greece said.

Turkey has repeatedly been accused of the selective approach to the refugees while implementing the refugee swaps stipulated in the EU-Turkish refugee deal. Papadakis said that in the current situation, Turkish bourgeoisie “is seeking to wrest the greatest possible exchanges, blackmailing through the control of the refugee flows.”

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According to him, the EU-Turkey deal did not solve the problem, but only worsened the situation.

“The EU-Turkey Agreement not only did not solve any problem of the refugees and the peoples, on the contrary the rivalries are being exacerbated and the peoples will be the ones who will pay the bill once more,” Papadakis said.

In March, Brussels and Ankara agreed on a deal under which Turkey pledged to take back all undocumented migrants who arrive in the European Union through its territory in exchange for Syrian refugees accommodated in Turkey, on a one-for-one basis. In return, the 28-member bloc pledged to accelerate the Turkish EU accession bid and introduce a visa-free regime between Turkey and the Schengen Area.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recently threatened to suspend the agreement on migration made with the European Union, if the bloc fails to proceed with the visa-free regime.

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