Denmark ready to help Poland protect its borders. What about the EU? Human Rights Service
The drama on Poland’s border with Belarus continues. Several groups of migrants are clear several times during the night until Wednesday and break through the barbed wire fence at 2.5 meters in height as Poland has rolled out towards Belarus. It is home to thousands of migrants trying to squeeze into Europe.
The Danish Foreign Minister, Jeppe Kofod (S), is currently on a state visit to Poland’s neighboring country, Germany, where political leadership is worried about what is happening on the Polish border. If Poland were to fail to stop the migrants, they would overturn Germany.
A clear Denmark
Kofod gave clear message during his visit to Germany: “There is no doubt that if needed we would like to see how we can help Poland if they want it. We are completely open about that. “
He goes on to say that he has so far understood that Poland “will initially solve the problem itself”.
Kofod probably has broad support in Denmark to take a grip on the Polish border. Yesterday went Pia Kjærsgaard, leader of the Danish People’s Party, clearly on Facebook with this message:
Terrible scenes from Poland that are being overrun by migrants from Belarus.
If they enter Poland, they also come to Denmark.
And the EU? As usual, there are only words.
If it were up to the Danish People’s Party, we must assist Poland with what is needed to stop this flow of migrants.
If not the same thing happens as we saw in 2015: That migrants walk on the Danish motorways.
Then came over 21,000 migrants.
It must never happen again!
We will take care of Denmark.
In Norway, FrP has now argued that Norway assists with 25 million kroner for Poland’s border control. This is to avoid writing a new migration as in 2015. NATO will also provide border assistance to Poland, writes the news agency Ritzau. While Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt (Labor Party) will wait to mean something until the EU has had its say. Norway, like Denmark, is not able to think for itself.
Giant turnaround operation on the way in the EU?
Today Welt reports (indirectly) on Kjærsgaard and FrP is heard. “There are signs of a spectacular turnaround in EU migration policy,” Welt wrote in the title (payment wall). For a long time, the strength of the European Commission has opposed financial support for the construction of border fences on Europe’s external borders. This may change now. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen challenges.
In the future, Brussels may be ready to support the construction of border fences financially. Should that actually happen, it would be a serious political defeat for EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
EU Council President Charles Michel raised an issue of funding for cross-border reasons Poland’s serious situation. The European Commission, led by von der Leyens, has previously strongly opposed this on several occasions.
During a visit to the Polish capital Warsaw, Michel said the EU would discuss the possibility of funding “physical infrastructure at the borders” in the coming days. Thus, he openly challenges von der Leyen. Only the European Commission can release funds for border protection.
One thing is certain: the pressure on Commission President von der Leyen has been fierce in recent days in the face of the worsening migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. Several thousand illegal migrants from predominantly Arab countries who are in the territory of Belarus are trying to break through the border barriers against Poland and thus also enter the EU.
The world calls the situation “state-organized human trafficking by the Minsk government”. Lithuania, Latvia and Poland are both asking for EU support. The contentious issue has been whether the EU has a legal right to such support. Michel has now legalized this right with his proposal.
Lithuania’s border with Belarus is almost 700 kilometers. It is in the nature of things that the country itself will not be able to finance the border fence without help from the EU.
Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer called his Polish counterpart, Mariusz Kaminski, on Wednesday. During the talks, Kaminski demanded not only tougher sanctions against Minsk, but above all financial support for the erection of a border fence on the more than 400-kilometer-long border between Poland and Belarus.
Nehammer is outraged by the European Commission: “The European Commission is repeating the same mistakes that were made during the migration crisis in Lithuania. Here, too, Brussels had refused financial support for a border fence and only wanted to help take in illegal migrants, he tells WELT. It is a “completely wrong signal to the smugglers”.
Poland’s resolute action on the border led to standing ovations in the Polish Parliament on Tuesday, also in gratitude for the efforts of the 20,000 soldiers and police officers at the border.
At the same time, Polish authorities are sending text messages to the migrants warning them of possible imprisonment and that Belarusians could poison them with pills. «Do not take any pills or medicines given to you in Belarus. You can be poisoned! ”
The website migrants are routed to is in a variety of languages, including Arabic.
At the same time, it is now claimed by the Polish government that it is Putin’s Russia that is behind the crisis on the border. Russia has managed to send patrolling bombers over Belarus.
The Polish government believes that Putin is the mastermind behind the migrant crisis and claims that Russia is trying to destabilize the EU.
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Russia and Belarus are expanding their cooperation, both militarily, politically and economically.
This is done through a project called the «Union State».
The crisis between East and West can thus escalate somewhat violently.
– Machine guns at the border or at every intersection?
To the newspaper VELT (after payment) commentator Martin van Creveld delivers this title: “If you do not want submachine guns at every intersection, you must station them at the border.”
The idea that “If you do not want machine guns at every intersection, you must station them at the border” is in line with the strategy chosen by Poland. Nor is it strange that it comes from one Israeli military expert, even a Jew born in the Netherlands, whose family immigrated to Israel in 1950, when Martin van Creveld was fire year. Because if it’s something Israel has experience with, then it’s war threats. As we have reported before, it is “short between the shelters” in parts of Israel.
The demonization of Israel is well known, and many are now trying to demonize Poland in the same way. But Poland knows, they can see it beyond the rest of Western Europe, that if they do not succeed in retaining power over their own borders, it will cost them far more to deal with the conflicts that arise from unsustainable immigration. It could end up with «machine guns on every street corner», which figuratively can be linked to our domestic debate about whether or not to constantly arm the police. Because we want the police to protect us, but many are not willing to admit what tools are needed. At the same time, we know that crime, especially due to immigration, is both increasing and cruder. That’s a fact. Should you be in doubt, just felt work in central parts of Sweden.
Are the established media waking up now?
In the following, we refer to our review of the crisis against Belarus, then to show how sent the old media and the EU woke up:
On August 18, HRS detected that the Polish army had deployed 900 soldiers on the border with Belarus to assist the border guards in dealing with a new wave of migrants. Even then, Poland was talking about a hybrid war with migrants as instruments of the authoritarian government of the Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko. German Chancellor Angela Merkel confirmed hybrid war.
On 19 August, we claimed that we were so preoccupied with the situation in Afghanistan that there was little interest in what was going on at the EU’s external border in Eastern Europe. Lithuania had then decided to build a border fence with Belarus. Ukraine assisted the country and had sent several miles of barbed wire to be used as a physical barrier at the border. Already then, videos appeared showing that migrants were being pushed across the border into Lithuania by the Belarusian rebel police. One of these videos was released by the BBC.
On 5 September, it became known that Denmark wanted to help Lithuania, where they sent, among other things, barbed wire fences as assistance. By then, Poland had three days before introduced a state of emergency in parts of to regions in the border area.
On 12 October, it became known that 12 EU countries, including Denmark, had sent a letter to the EU Commission calling for the introduction and financing of physical barriers at Europe’s external borders. Here, too, it was argued with «hybrid threats».
On October 15, the Polish parliament had approved an amendment to the law that would make it possible to stop migrants directly at the border. It was also decided that Polish authorities will no longer have to process asylum applications that come from migrants who have entered the country illegally. However, the European Commission, represented by Ylva Johansson, was most concerned about the situation of migrants on the Belarusian border, and with criticizing Poland for “destroying the EU from within”. A few days later, on October 20, Poland replied that “the EU is not a state, but a collection of sovereign states that have decided to work together.”
On 25 October, we announced an “extreme need to secure the EU’s external border” and increasing migratory flows.
The next day we reported that Poland increased the number of soldiers on the border to 10,000 while they continued to roll out barbed wire fences.
On November 6, it became known that human traffickers had started organized activity to help migrants from Belarus and into Europe. It was revealed that the human traffickers themselves were migrants with legal residence in Europe, typically Germany or Sweden.
On November 8, the situation at the border between Poland and Belarus had escalated further. Hundreds of migrants tried to break into Poland. Poland had then stationed more than 12,000 soldiers in addition to the border guards and made it clear that they were willing to defend the Polish border. NATO called Belarus’s action “unacceptable” and a “hybrid attack”.
The day after the aggravated situation itself. By then, Belarusian soldiers had escorted around 5,000 migrants to the border. We pointed out that human stability and security for Europe are at stake, the European Commission does not seem to understand the seriousness of the situation.