On the Polish-Belarusian border, the EU is violating its own commitments to human rights by brutally pushing back asylum-seekers. This is a long term trend, where the EU tacitly encourages securitisation and democratic backsliding on its borders.
Thousands of people stranded on the European Union s eastern border represent an attempt by Belarus to destabilize the bloc, rather than a migrant crisis, and as such call for a co-ordinated response, the head of EU executive said on Tuesday (23 November), write Alan Charlish, Marine Strauss, Pawel Florkiewicz, Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk, Jan Strupczewski, Sabine Siebold, […]
A Polish imam recited prayers Tuesday over the tiny white casket of an unborn Iraqi boy, the latest life claimed as migrants from the Middle East have tried to slip into the European Union illegally and found their path blocked by soldiers in the forests of Poland and Belarus. After the first snow of the…