It is in a particular context that the Commission presented, on 29 September, its new 2021-2025 Action Plan against migrant smuggling and trafficking networks, in this case in the context of continuous arrivals of migrants for several months in Lithuania, Poland and Latvia, with the help of Belarus.
The new Action Plan against smugglers “puts a very special emphasis” on the “instrumentalisation” of migrants for political purposes, explained Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva...