Polish interior minister, EU commissioner agree ‘firm steps’ needed against Belarus: officials

The Polish interior minister and the European commissioner for home affairs have agreed that firm steps need to be taken in response to a growing migrant crisis on Poland’s border with Belarus….

[Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński] told [the EU’s Ylva] Johansson how Poland was protecting the bloc’s outer border against “hybrid attacks” by the regime of Belarus’ strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko….

Kamiński wrote on Twitter that he and Johansson had agreed that “Belarus’ actions must be met with a firm response from member states.”

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Johansson has previously said the standoff between Poland and Belarus “is not a migration issue, but part of the aggression” by Belarus’ Lukashenko “toward Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, with the aim to destabilize” the European Union. [Sheer, unadulterated lunacy.]

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Poland and fellow EU [and NATO] members Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have accused Belarus’ Lukashenko of organising a wave of illegal migrants seeking to enter the bloc as part of what officials have called a “hybrid war.”