European Commission Vice-President for the Promotion of the European Way of Life, Margarítis Schinás, and the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, defended, on Thursday 13 January, in front of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, the relevance of the proposal for an EU Council decision authorising Poland, Lithuania and Latvia to take exceptional measures to deal with migrants arriving at the border with Belarus (see EUROPE B12844A11).
The Vice-President,...