Von der Leyen demands that the Lukashenko government “stop putting lives in danger”. Thousands of people crowd the border, pushed by the Belarusian authorities, to try to cross to European soil.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has urged the countries of the European Union (EU) to approve new sanctions against Belarus for using migration as a political weapon against the Twenty-seven.
“I call on the Member States to approve once and for all the expanded sanctions regime against the Belarusian authorities responsible for this hybrid attack” with migrants on the border between Belarus and Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, he said in a statement.
Von der Leyen has warned that “the Belarusian authorities must understand that pressuring the European Union with the cynical instrumentalization of migrants will not help them in their ends.”
“The instrumentalization of migrants for political purposes by Belarus is unacceptable (…). Belarus must stop putting lives in danger“, has riveted the head of the community executive.
Von der Leyen has explained that he has spoken with the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, with the Lithuanian Prime Minister, Ingrida Simonyte, and with the Latvian Prime Minister, Arturs Krisjanis Karins, about the “measures that the EU can take to support them in this crisis”.
The Commission will also study together with the UN and its specialized agencies how to avoid humanitarian crises and ensure that migrants can return safely to their countries of origin.
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