Belarus’s border guard has said Polish security forces are in “no danger” while guarding the Belarusian border.
Poland's Sejm (lower house) on Wednesday passed amendments to Poland's border laws in response to the on-going migrant crisis on its border with Belarus.
An EU source has told PAP that during a Brussels meeting of EU ambassadors on Belarus there was a stormy exchange between the Polish and German ambassadors after Germany claimed talks between Merkel and Lukashenko had helped de-escalate the border situation.
Poland will reject all agreements regarding the migrant crisis on its border with Belarus made without its participation, the Polish president said on Wednesday.
Belarus's president, Alexander Lukashenko, has threatened to cut gas supplies transiting his country to the EU in retaliation for new sanctions announced by the EU against his regime over the border crisis they say he has engineered.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for mediation in a mounting migrant crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border.
Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has accused Moscow of pursuing an imperial policy and instigating a migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border.
Since the start of an escalating migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border, Polish authorities have foreseen that Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to capitalise politically on the situation, the director of the National Security Department has said.
When Angelina Bets was 17-years-old, a ‘terrifying’ encounter with the police made her realise she had no future in her homeland. Now 23, she is studying for a Master’s degree in International Trade Policy at Warsaw University.
In the first of a series looking at minority groups living in Poland, TFN met award-winning psychologist Albina Stroganova who, after being put under surveillance by the Belarusian secret police for her opposition to the country’s president Alexander Lukashenko, decided to flee to a new life in Poland.
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