Magnus Brunner thanked Warsaw for protecting the EU’s eastern frontier from “weaponised” migration.

Magnus Brunner thanked Warsaw for protecting the EU’s eastern frontier from “weaponised” migration.
The men were probably among a group of migrants seen last month being “pushed into the water” by Belarusian officers, says a Polish deputy minister.
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“There is no doubt about the cooperation of the Belarusian security services with gangs smuggling people from Africa and Asia.”
Agnieszka Holland claimed that Polish border officers are beating migrants and setting dogs on them.
“Our message will be simple: the Polish border is sealed,” says Donald Tusk.
The measures “give border guards a key tool to combat illegal migration, which is an element of hybrid aggression against Poland”, says the interior minister.
“The EU and Germany want to destroy the Polish nation” by using migrants as part of a “hybrid war against Poland”, said the organiser.
Erosion could change the course of the Bug river, which marks the border between Poland and Belarus.
He says the measures effectively amount to the suspension of the Schengen Agreement and are causing significant traffic disruption.
Since reintroducing border controls with Poland in 2023, Germany has been turning back thousands of migrants who illegally cross the border.
There has been only one such incident in the last six months.
Data obtained by Notes from Poland show 30,090 attempted crossings from Belarus across the whole of 2024.
The measures are intended to prevent illegal immigration, but he says they violate free-movement rules.
The commission says states can introduce measures that “may seriously interfere with fundamental rights”.