Commenting on the migrant crisis, European Commission spokesman Adalbert Jahnz told a press conference in Brussels on Monday: “This is an attempt by a third country to instrumentalise people for political purposes, which we strongly reject and describe as a form of aggression.”
EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson has told The New York Times that the standoff between Poland and Belarus "is not a migration issue, but part of the aggression" of Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko "toward Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, with the aim to destabilize" the European Union.
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