Posted on 01/21/2022 7:47:11 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Ministers from European Union nations under pressure from unauthorized border crossings asked Friday for more action to strengthen and protect the bloc’s external borders as well as for rules to return migrants to their homelands or where they started their journeys.
Interior ministers from EU countries including Greece, Poland, Italy, Austria and France — which currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency — as well as nonaligned Switzerland and Norway, attended a border security conference in Lithuania’s capital of Vilnius. European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson and the heads of European security bodies like Europol and Frontex, the EU’s border agency, also joined the talks.
The ministers described the influx of migrants as dramatic and urged swift actions, including reinforcing the EU’s borders and cracking down on people smugglers to protect both EU citizens and the lives of migrants and refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia who undertake hazardous journeys to reach Europe.
“We must protect our borders from aggression, and we need to protect our people,” Johansson told more than 30 officials at the conference.
Doing that, she said, requires stopping people who are fleeing poverty and conflicts in their home countries from starting out on dangerous migration routes. But she also stressed the need for a new European system for returning migrants to their homelands if they have no permission to stay in the EU.
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As Mama used to say… “Just do it!”
Well ill be damned, Hell just froze over it looks like.
Only took them that long to figure it out, unreal.
“We must protect our borders from aggression, and we need to protect our people. Now its WE after the damage is done by the very people now that are saying WE
Better check the water over there for high levels of Trumptainium.
weird how the only border woke-globalists care about is between Ukraine and Russia.
All the other borders, including America’s southern border? Come on in!
Dont celebrate too quick, they still demand that the us open our borders no questions asked
Why not fly them to undisclosed locations and hook them up with some “free” money?
Trump puts drugs in the water of his hotels where these guys stayed to pander to Trump. And now...
Note that they are talking about the borders of the bloc and non eu countries.
So a border wall between Lithuania and Belarus as well as between Poland and Belarus.
But no borders between Lithuania and Poland.
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