MEPs urged the EU to take action against the Belarusian government of Alexander Lukashenko over its use of migrants and asylum seekers to put pressure on Europe’s borders, in an exchange with Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson late on Tuesday morning 5 October.
The Commissioner, speaking in the absence of Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, recalled the many actions taken by the Union, including the summer sanctions...