EU 'Dangerously' Dependent on Turkey in Attempt to Avoid Refugees

The European Union (EU) shouldn’t get too chummy with Turkey, trying to shift the responsibility of taking care of Syrian refugees to Ankara, Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said, according to the German newspaper Die Welt.

In an attempt to avoid dealing with Syrian refugees, the EU tries to make Turkey to "do the dirty job" of keeping the refugees out of Europe.

In November 2015, the European Commission set up a 3 billion euro (more than $3.2 billion) fund for Turkey to help it boost border security and accommodate some 2.2 billion Syrian refugees.

By doing this, the EU risks giving Ankara too much power, the Austrian Foreign Minister explained.

"When the EU delegates Ankara a responsibility to ensure EU's common borders, there is a significant dependency [from Turkey], which I believe is very dangerous," Kurz told the German newspaper in an interview.

• Some EU politicians, including Kurz, fear that it'd be hard to control the border area between Turkey and Syria without the use of violence. 

The EU cannot simply delegate the "dirty work" of the border control to Turkey while remaining "innocent" themselves.

The whole refugee situation won't be without the "ugly scenes of violence" and the EU should accept this fact without shifting responsibility to Turkey, Kurz said.......http://sptnkne.ws/azF9
 14/1/16 
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