On Wednesday 11 December, Greens/EFA MEP Tineke Strik (Dutch) criticised the European Commission’s new communication on hybrid threats and the weaponisation of migration at the EU’s external borders (see EUROPE B13543A1), arguing that it allows “Member States to reject fundamental rights, including the right to asylum”.
“This is legalizing pushbacks. It opens a Pandora’s box of derogations”, she commented on X. “[It] is grist to the mill for Russia and Belarus that the EU...