The foreign ministers of the European Union have approved a new legal framework to be able to impose more sanctions on the Belarusian regime for “instrumentalizing” migrants.
The foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) have already prepared the legal ground to be able to impose the first sanctions on a country for “instrumentalizing” migrants in order to exert political pressure, in this case to Belarus, whom he accuses of pushing these people to cross its external borders.
“It is not a migratory crisis but rather an instrumentalization of migration, and it is because a European response must correspond to the challenges of European size”, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs stressed. Jose Manuel Albares, at a press conference at the end of the Council of Community Ministers.
Faced with the actions of the Belarusian regime, which promotes flights from the Middle East to Minsk and then takes passengers to the borders of Belarus with Lithuania, Poland or Latvia, the EU today decided to go one step further.
For the EU, what the Alexandr Lukashenko It is carrying out is a “hybrid attack”, a strategy to destabilize the Union using methods outside the military tradition such as pressure through disinformation or the use of people on its borders.
“The borders of the EU are not open in an unlimited way, entry is only possible through a legitimate border crossing, complying with the requirements of the EU, either with a visa or through the asylum procedure. All the contrary information It is wrong, pure disinformation, “said the High Representative for EU Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell.
In order to try to stop that action, the ministers today supported a new legal framework that expands the circumstances in which it will be able to impose new restrictive measures on Belarus in what will already be a fifth wave of sanctions.
After the last presidential elections in that ex-Soviet republic, in which Lukashenko prevailed again and which the EU called fraud, the community bloc imposed different sanctions on those who were impeding the return to institutional order or who had participated in the repression of the protests citizens, including Lukashenko himself.
Although Borrell has not specified the number or identity of the people who will be sanctioned With the new framework, it has said that the modification will allow “targeting those responsible for exploiting vulnerable people and facilitating their illegal passage to the EU.”
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