Head of EU border security agency: preparing for new migration crises
The European Union should prepare for new border migration crises. Such a future was predicted by Fabrice Ledgerie, head of Frontex, the EU's external border security agency. His words are reported by Yahoo News with reference to AFP.
“This is not the first time the EU has faced attempts at what can be called geopolitical blackmail or a hybrid threat,” Ledgerie said. According to him, states can easily manipulate migration flows for their own purposes and quickly provoke crises.
The current situation on the border of Belarus and Poland, he compared with the crisis in February 2020, when Turkey allowed thousands of migrants to the border with Greece , and Greek border guards had to restrain them by force.
Earlier in November, British Foreign Minister Elizabeth Truss held Russia responsible for the migration crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border. She said that Moscow should put pressure on Minsk to end the crisis and start a dialogue.