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The EU could build a border wall on the bloc’s frontier with Belarus to keep migrants out, it has emerged.
It would mark an extraordinary U-turn for senior EU officials, who lambasted former US president Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for advocating similar policies.
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has been accused of weaponising migration by deliberately flying in would-be refugees from the Middle East and north Africa and sending them across the border into Poland.
The EU could build a border wall on the bloc’s frontier with Belarus to keep migrants out. Pictured: Migrants are seen at a tent camp on the Belarusian-Polish border. According to the Polish Border Guard, several thousand migrants have been approaching the Polish border since November 8, 2021
As tensions escalated, Russia sent two nuclear-capable bombers to patrol Belarusian airspace today. In an astonishing move, European Council president Charles Michel, speaking at a ceremony to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, said that Brussels could help build a border fence to prevent asylum-seekers from entering.
‘We have opened the debate on the EU financing of physical border infrastructure,’ he told a stunned audience today in the German capital, which was divided for
