The EU will not fund “barbed wire or walls”, the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has said, in defiance of calls from some governments to build protective defences against migrants seeking to enter the bloc.Ī number of EU leaders have voiced concerns in recent weeks over a rise in numbers of people seeking to cross the bloc’s borders, with eight having died at the Polish border with Belarus in recent months.Īlexander Lukashenko, Belarus’s president, has been accused of seeking to orchestrate an EU crisis in an act of “hybrid warfare”, by pushing migrants from the Middle East and Africa across its border in response to sanctions.Īt a summit of EU leaders in Brussels, Alexander Schallenberg, Austria’s chancellor, said that “building a wall” on the Lithuanian border could be one method of defending the EU against what he called Lukashenko’s “cynical policy”.
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