The option of building a wall on the border of the European Union with Belarus is becoming as real a possibility as the one that the President of the European Council, the Belgian Charles Michel , has already put on the table. It has done so in response to the request of many countries in the east of the continent in which they ask for “a physical barrier” on their borders to avoid situations like the one that is now being experienced between Poland and Belarus.
Michel explained that “Belarus is using the anguish of migrants in a cynical and surprising way.” For this reason, he has proposed to the European Commission – chaired by Ursula von der Leyen – to “propose all the necessary measures”, including the possibility of “physical infrastructures on the border” , noting that “we have opened the debate on financing by of the EU ”of this eventual wall that, he has assured, would be legally sustainable.
This is an option that, yes, for now Von der Leyen does not want to assume. The European Commission continues to suggest that Poland turn to Frontex for the deployment of agents of the European entity on the border with Belarus. Until now, the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki , has not resorted to this formal request, as for example neither did Spain with its similar conflict with Morocco.
For now, Warsaw has urged to tighten economic sanctions against the Belarusian regime of Aleksandr Lukashenko , while requesting this physical barrier in a letter sent to the European Commission, which has also been joined by Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Republic. Czech, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia and Slovakia.
Thousands guided to the border
There are currently several thousand immigrants on the Belarusian-Polish border, 2,000 of them in a camp that has been set up in front of the Polish town of Kuznica. These immigrants are being used by the Lukashenko regime in what Von der Leyen has called a “hybrid attack” on the European Union, with the aim of politically and socially destabilizing the continent. The vast majority of these immigrants are Iraqi Kurds.
Brussels accuses President Aleksandr Lukashenko, known as the ‘last dictator of Europe’, in power since 1994 under the shelter of Russia, of having orchestrated this situation in revenge for the international sanctions that weigh against him. As early as May, after Belarus hijacked a European plane to detain a critical journalist, Lukashenko warned the European Union that it would not stop “druggeds and immigrants” who wanted to enter Europe.
Poland denounces that what Belarus is doing is granting transit visas to attract immigrants to its territory and direct them to the border. Once there, he provides them with various utensils to cut the barbed wire that prevents the passage to the European Union.
