EU Widens Criteria for Imposing Sanctions on Belarus Amid Migrant Crisis
The European Union expanded the listing criteria under its Belarus sanctions regime to target the "instrumentalisation of human beings carried out by the Belarus regime for political purposes," the European Council said Nov. 15. The EU can now target individuals…
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and entities that help the EU external border crossings between Poland and Belarus. The move comes as a direct response to Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko's allegedly deliberate attempts to herd thousands of migrants, primarily from Iraq and Afghanistan, to the Polish, Lithuanian and Latvian borders. "Today's decision reflects the determination by the European Union to stand up to the instrumentalisation of migrants for political purposes," said Josep Borrell, the council's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy. "We are pushing back on this inhuman and illegal practice. At the same time, we continue to underline the unacceptable ongoing repression by the regime against its own population at home, and we will respond accordingly."