EU sides with Poland in Belarus border standoff
Brussels has reiterated its position accusing Minsk of aggression against Warsaw by trying to push migrants across the shared border.
Police stand guard on Poland’s eastern border with Belarus amid a migrant crisis.Photo: PAP/Artur Reszko
Commenting on the migrant crisis, European Commission spokesman Adalbert Jahnz told a press conference in Brussels on Monday: “This is an attempt by a third country to instrumentalise people for political purposes, which we strongly reject and describe as a form of aggression.”
