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hide. Belarus–European Union border crisis. Map showing main routes of illegal migrants to the Belarus–EU border. Date. 7 July 2021 – ongoing. Location. Belarus–EU border (Belarus; Poland, Lithuania, Latvia) [ 1 ] Caused by. Deterioration in Belarus–EU relations following the 2020 Belarusian election and 2020–2021 protests.
Construction. Poland began work on the 5.5-meter (18 foot) high steel wall topped with barbed wire at a cost of around 1.6 billion zł (US$407m) aimed at blocking the passage of illegal migrants during the border crisis in the region artificially instigated by Belarus in the late summer of 2021.
The provisions of the Pact apply to migrants caught crossing an external EU border without permission, such as those reaching the shores of Greece, Italy or Spain via the Mediterranean Sea or Atlantic Ocean on boats provided by smugglers; estimated at around 300,000 migrants in 2023. [13]
Poland and the Baltic states will close their borders with Belarus entirely if a "critical incident" involving Wagner mercenaries takes place, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said on Monday.
The Baltic Defence Line is planned to consist of anti-mobility defensive installations, [8] such as at least six-hundred bunkers across each individual national border, [note 1] the usage of natural and artificial obstacles, such as forestry and rivers, and anti-tank ditches along the borders of the three Baltic states.
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Russian border guards have removed navigation buoys from the Estonian side of a river separating the two countries, the Baltic nation said on Thursday, adding that it would ...
The Baltic states[a] or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term encompassing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. All three countries are members of NATO, the European Union, the Eurozone, Council of Europe, and the OECD. The three sovereign states on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea are sometimes referred to as the "Baltic nations", less ...
Therefore, the EU's actions gradually shifted during the crisis towards surveillance and securitization, and the first step in this direction was terminating the Operation Mare Nostrum in 2014 and supplanting it with the Operation Triton. [61] By 2016, EU was already externalizing its border control through a 3 billion deal with Turkey. In 2017 ...