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Migrants in Belarus: "Lukashenko's goal is to destabilize the EU"

2021-11-12T18:39:01.286Z


INTERVIEW - For the Vice-President of the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas, this crisis underlines the need for a real European policy on migration.


The situation was still tense Friday on the border between Belarus and Poland.

Several thousand migrants are in this area trying to reach the EU.

Thousands more are said to be in Minsk, awaiting further destabilization operations.

Could President Lukashenko put pressure on Lithuania?

This country is far from having the strike force of Poland which, according to a European source, would have deployed in total some “

13,000 soldiers, 12,000 border guards and anti-riot forces

” on the Belarusian border.

While many fear that these hybrid attacks will turn into a military conflict, the defense ministers of the Baltic countries have called on "

the EU and NATO to give clear and immediate answers to ensure that such attempts to destabilize the country. 'Europe will fail

'.

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It is in this context of strong tensions that the Commission is trying to stem the arrival of migrants in Belarus.

The vice president,

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Source: lefigaro

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