Belarus is 'weaponizing migrants' on the border 'to exert pressure on the EU'
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Piotr Buras, Head of the ECFR Warsaw office, joins France 24 to tackle the Belarus-Poland border crisis. Poland and other EU member states accuse Belarus of encouraging the migrants - from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa - to illegally cross the frontier into the EU in revenge for sanctions slapped on Minsk over human rights abuses. Mr. Buras emphasizes the need to extend and tighten sanctions against Lukashenko's 'cruel regime,' stressing that 'there's no way to negotiate anything.'