Did the European Union ‘Shoot Itself in the Foot’ With This Poland-Belarus Migrant Crisis?

The Poland-Belarus border crisis is escalating by the day—and whereas Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko’s tactic of weaponizing migrants has sparked outrage worldwide, some are additionally pointing fingers on the EU for its remedy of these migrants and its flawed border coverage.

“What Belarus is doing by way of weaponizing migrants on this approach is a horrible horrible factor, however I don’t know if the proper response from Poland by way of sending again migrants who’ve already crossed,” stated The Every day Beast’s Noor Ibrahim. “That’s as a result of we all know what this dictatorship is. We all know who Lukashenko is. And somebody, sooner or later, has to step up. As a result of who’re the people who find themselves going to be falling by way of the cracks right here? It’s these migrants.”

The AFP’s Dave Clark argued that the continued disaster comes after years of the EU “taking pictures itself within the foot” relating to border coverage.

“It’s good that the European Union is standing up now. We’ve failed for a decade now to develop some form of frequent border coverage that might take up what is just about 2000 [migrants] or so.”

TVP’s Brussels-based correspondent, Dominica Cosic, nevertheless, stated it wasn’t that straightforward.

“It’s not so black and white,” stated Cosic. “It’s not only a query of borders, however confidences and powers. Belarus and Russia will use all attainable possibilities to destabilize this case.”

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