Poland and Lithuania begin to build walls and the European Union will discuss their possible financing

In full debate whether or not the European Union (EU) should finance the construction of walls and barbed wire, in the last hours, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, has advanced that the heads of Government and State of the 27 will discuss in the next few days the financing possibilities. Charles Michel’s position clashes with that of the European Commission, which has expressed its opposition.

All this comes in full migration crisis between the European Union and Belarus. In this context, Poland and Lithuania they have decided to build walls on their borders with Belarus.

The Polish government recently started the construction of a wall and a surveillance system along the 420 kilometers of its border with Belarus, for which it has allocated some 350 million euros. Several countries including those bordering Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, have asked that the border walls should be financed with European money.

The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, he met yesterday with the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, and asked “to act quickly and decisively” in the crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border, where he said “a hybrid, brutal, violent and unworthy attack” takes place.

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, for his part, has called for the mobilization of all European resources to face the humanitarian, migratory and geopolitical crisis on the border of Poland and Belarus. He explained that the flow of migrants at origin must be stopped. According to Borrell, the EU managed to curb the flow of migrants from Iraq in the summer and subsequently the flights from other points such as Jordan, Lebanon or Egypt.

At the meeting next Monday, the EU foreign ministers will address the migration crisis.