The European Union Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, has confirmed that the European Commission may transfer €200 million to Poland, Lithuania and Latvia to secure the borders, according to a communication from the Ministry of the Interior and Administration. On Thursday, Johansson spoke with the head of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, Marius Kaminsky.
- According to a statement from the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, the EU Commissioner understands and shares the Polish point of view
- Elva Johansson ensured that funds could be transferred to secure the border
- This is another conversation recently held by the head of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration dedicated to the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border
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On Thursday, the head of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, Mariusz Kaminsky, spoke by phone with the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson. As the Ministry reported, Kamiński provided information about the current situation on the Polish-Belarusian border. He also stressed that apart from the crisis on the Polish-Belarus border, the fate of political prisoners in Belarus is also important, which requires increased participation of the entire European Union in the efforts to free them. .
The ministry emphasized that Commissioner Ylva Johansson shares Poland’s position that Belarus’ actions must receive a firm response from the European Union, and that the Lukashenka regime is responsible for the migration crisis at the Polish-Belarus border. She also confirmed that it is possible for the European Commission to transfer 200 million euros to Poland, Lithuania and Latvia Border security.
“During the meeting, Minister Mariusz Kaminsky provided information on the recent events at the Polish-Belarus border and the measures taken to ensure the security of the external borders of the European Union. The head of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration confirmed that Poland is preventing illegal migrants crossing the border led by the Belarusian services. The commissioner participated in the Polish diagnosis of the situation, It agreed to act decisively against the Lukashenka regime by imposing sanctions as well as taking joint diplomatic actions in the migrants’ country of origin.”
It was added that the head of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration noted that since the beginning of the crisis, Poland has had a continuous and intense dialogue with various partners from the European Union, as well as from outside society, for example with Ukraine. “In all these talks, support for the actions of the Polish government was announced and understanding was expressed for the difficult and unprecedented situation at the border,” the statement noted.
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This is another conversation that Kaminsky recently had on the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border. The head of the Ministry of Interior and Administration spoke by phone to his counterparts, including. In Great Britain, Slovenia, Ukraine and Austria, who expressed their solidarity in the face of the crisis and affirmed their support. Last week, the head of Germany’s Interior Ministry, Horst Seehofer, came to Warsaw to meet the Polish minister, who also expressed solidarity with Poland and thanked him for his actions at the border.
Thursday is also another day of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s meetings with European leaders. The head of the Polish government is currently in Berlin, where he is meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and with Olaf Schulz, the candidate for the post of the new chancellor of this country. From Sunday, the head of the Polish government visited 7 countries and spoke during meetings with European leaders about the situation at the Polish-Belarus border of the European Union.
There was a crisis on the borders of the European Union and Belarus, in which the number of attempts to illegally cross the Belarusian border with Lithuania, Latvia and Poland by immigrants from the Middle East, Africa and other regions increased sharply in the spring. The European Union and its member states assert that this is the result of the deliberate actions of the regime of Alexander Lukashenka, which in response to sanctions actively uses migrants, bringing them to Belarus and then directing them to the border with the European Union.
