Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) wants to make suggestions on how to deal with unauthorized entries via Belarus and Poland at the Federal Cabinet meeting in Berlin today.
At 11.30 a.m. Seehofer will give a press conference on the subject of migration.
Berlin - The federal government and also the governments in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland accuse the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko of bringing migrants and refugees from crisis regions to the EU's external border in an organized manner.
According to a report by the news portal "The Pioneer", Seehofer is supporting considerations on European punitive measures against participating companies in this context.
"All airlines and other companies whose actions support the instrumentalisation of irregular migration by the Belarusian regime must be imposed as quickly as possible on EU-wide, drastic sanctions," says a report from the Federal Ministry of the Interior to the cabinet.
In view of the ongoing illegal migration via Belarus, Germany and other EU states want to take more action against participating airlines.
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Lukashenko announced at the end of May that Minsk would no longer prevent people from continuing to travel to the EU - in response to tightened Western sanctions against his country.
According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, around 4,500 illegal entries have been found in eastern Germany since August.
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Seehofer has already proposed joint patrols on the German-Polish border to his Polish counterpart Mariusz Kaminski.
These should "primarily be used on Polish territory, of course under the direction of Polish border guards," said Seehofer in the letter dated Monday.
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