The European Union (EU) plans to impose sanctions against the National Airport of Minsk and the Minsk Hotel due to the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. This is reported by the FINANCIAL TIMES newspaper with reference to diplomatic sources.
According to the publication, the sanctions list will be refined for several weeks, since the EU has coordinates his response with the allies. ” At the same time, the authors of the material emphasize that the EU member states have not yet come to the consensus regarding sanctions against the National Airport of Minsk in connection with the “existing legal difficulties”.
It is reported that sanctions against the Minsk hotel can be taken due to the fact that the hotel is located migrants, which are then trying to get to Poland.
Previously, NATO expressed solidarity with Poland and Baltic due to the migration crisis. In the alliance, they stated that the current crisis is an artificially created situation, part of a hybrid attack against the Western neighbors of Belarus for political purposes.
The flow of migrants from the territory of Belarus in the EU sharply increased after Lukashenko, against the background of the next exacerbation of relations with the West, threatened to weaken control abroad.