As announced last week in a Communication on Belarus and its instrumentalisation of migrants (see EUROPE B12838A2), the Commission proposed on 1 December, putting forward a proposal for an EU Council Decision, that Poland, Lithuania and Latvia could implement exceptional measures for a period of 6 months, allowing them to adapt to or derogate from the current rules on asylum and migration management.
With 40,000 people attempting to cross the borders of these three countries in 2021,...