EU Ministers Meet Amid Talk Of New Measures Against Belarus Over Migrants
udf.byA group of Iraqi migrants is surrounded by border guards and police in Hajnowka after they crossed the Belarusian-Polish border on October 14. The European Union's foreign ministers have expressed support for new measures to halt the flow of illegal migrants that the bloc accuses Belarus of sending in retaliation for sanctions against authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka and his regime over its crackdown on the opposition. As the ministers gathered for a meeting in Brussels on October 18, several called for fresh sanctions against Minsk, as well as measures targeting Belarus's state airline, Belavia, as migrants from the Middle East and Africa continue to pour over the border on the EU's eastern flank.