Watch the video recording of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Webinar, “The Belarus-Poland-Lithuania Migrant Crisis: Context and Concerns”!
Also available at the . The webinar was originally presented on 24 November, 2021.
Discussion of the geopolitical deadlock and humanitarian crisis between Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus with some discussion of Russia. Speakers covered a range of topics about the migrant crisis, including:
- The motives of President Lukashenko’s use of the crisis as an attempt to force EU countries to end sanctions and engage with Belarus.
- The narratives coming from the countries involved as well as Russia, and the Polish narrative as the last defence of Europe against the migrants.
- The historical factors around Soviet Border control and the legacy of this system in the current situationl.
- Russia’s public diplomacy in relation to crisis, and the way it has made use of the crisis.
- The EU’s eastern policy and the impact of the crisis on this policy, and whether the eastern policy has been at all successful.
- The EU narrative of the crisis and the framing of the crisis as not a migrant crisis, but rather an authoritarian attempt to destabilise democratic neighbours.
Timestamps for speakers are available on YouTube.
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