In the midst of an escalating migrant crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called for new EU sanctions against Belarus on Wednesday.
Thousands of people are stranded in freezing weather at the EU’s eastern border, with Warsaw accusing Russia and Belarus of using the refugees to jeopardise European security.
Maas said in a statement “We will sanction all those who participate in the targeted smuggling of migrants,” the German foreign minister asserted, while adding that the EU will push to “extend and tighten … sanctions against Lukashenko’s regime.”
