The European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, said she was “ready to consider suspending” the visa facilitation regime for Belarus “in response to the influx of migrants to Lithuania from that country” on Monday 12 July before the European Parliament’s Committees on Home Affairs (LIBE) and External Affairs (AFET), meeting in joint session.
Although the Commission would like “contacts to be maintained with the Belarusian population”, the Commissioner said, this...