Border Conflict and the New European Reality

... several years, this has affected Western Europe — the most enlightened and progressive part of the community of market democracies. This year, the problem has taken an unexpected angle and turn — Europe is faced with a movement of Middle Eastern refugees from a state with which the European Union has openly hostile relations. The leading EU countries have been actively fighting against Belarus for more than a year. For logistical reasons, Belarus under Alexander Lukashenko cannot be a transit country for such a number of refugees ...