A group of soldiers stands behind the barbery wire, and the concrete reinforcement row is blocking their front. This is not Ukraine, but Poland. Polish soldiers have protected one of the European leaders called the Russian “hybrid war” with the European Union.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his allies, Belarusian Alexander Lukashenko, have been brought from other places around the world across the EU to promote the support of anti -immigrants to the far -right political parties. By pushing thousands of immigrants, we tried to make emigration weapons.
States such as Syria, Eritria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Sudan are flying to Russia and Belarus on the promise of building a better life in Europe. After that, Russia and Belarus have transported exile applicants near the EU’s border, where they are given the equipment and tools to convey. Last year, nearly 30,000 immigrants tried to cross the Polish border from the immigration route, the immigration route that did not exist five years ago.
Poland’s hard -line response was a violation of international law, which led to the accusation of forcing exile over Belarus. The law, which is the controversy, gives the government the right to suspend the exile of the people coming from Belarus.
Some are referred to as Russia and their allies, which are called the necessary scale, while others have criticized the EU states that they will reduce basic asylean rights.
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The border between Poland with Belarus has grown more than 400 km. The increase in the number of Belarus has seen a huge amount of border security accumulation. The tall steel fence with a kamiso -ri wire topped has been reinforced along a major intersection, and thousands of Polish troops are published to patrol the area. The electronic trip wire running along the border warns guards at any intersection at the guard, and the huge camera network monitor activity.
Major General Arkadiuzhsukitsunik, an Army Task Force, which supports border guards, has said that the border of Poland Belarus began to be pressure a year before the Ukrainian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. FLOODGATES operation. Belarus has begun to carry citizens of Africa and Asian countries to Russia and Belarus and have begun to border Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, “he says.
According to Polish officials, immigrants often need to pay Belarus and Russian handlers between $ 8,000 and $ 12,000. According to Polish border guards, the number of intersections from Belarus to Poland has increased from only 117 in 2020 to 37,800 in 2021. In 2022, another 15,590 intersection was recorded, and last year 26,000 and 29,700 were recorded.
However, the number of people who claimed asylum after crossing Belarus was only a part of those numbers. Only 6,046 applied for international protection in the past four years.
The majority of people detained by Polish authorities did not want to register for Poland’s exile, and was sent back to Belarus, according to Robert Bagan, Commander of Polish border guards. Many want to go to Western Europe to claim exile in states, such as Germany.
According to Adriana Tidona, an immigrant policy researcher in Amnesty International, it is risky to push people back into the border of Belarus, saying that both the EU and the international law and the international law are “blatant”. It is forbidden to be sent back to a possible place.
Maciej Duszczyk, Deputy Secretary of State of the Ministry of Interior, has opposed it. “If there are Court Jiboire people, they want to go to Portugal. If there are people from Pakistan, most of them want to go to the UK. If there are Morocco, most of them are. I want to go to France, but they do not want to be registered in our system. “
Duszczyk argues not to seek international protection in Poland, but want to try further attempts in another attempt, seeking an exile wishing to send it back to Belarus. “They don’t want to be registered, sometimes (they say):” I don’t want to be here, push me back and send me to Belarus and retry. “
Prime Minister Donald Task promised a step further in October last year, outlined a new law plan to suspend the rights to claim the rights of people coming from Belarus.
Most central unions led by the Task Civic Platform Party gained power after the parliamentary election 15 months ago. Previously, Popurist, right -wing law and PiS (PIS) party had been in government for eight years. Meanwhile, they eroded the ruling of the law, politicized the judiciary and the media, and demonized the EU and the minority that focused on the LGBT+community.
The task election as the Prime Minister sighed with the Ursla von del Reyen’s European Commission and the highest level of rescue at the highest level of many capitals.
TUSK, a political heavyweight, used to be Prime Minister from 2007 to 2014, but played a senior EU as the President of the European Council. So he served as the chair of the regular summit that the national leader met to determine the total image policy for five years. After returning to the Prime Minister, he had repaired Poland’s damaged relationship with Brussels and pledged to reversing his previous super -conservative government policy.
Last year, tasks played a leading role in Europe’s politics, and the French President Emmanuel Macron and German Prime Minister Oraf Cholt were weakened, and stepped into the vacuum of Germany and France.
The influential location of the central right polish premiere around 27 EU leaders was revealed when the summit was gathered in October. The migration was the top of the agenda. When the door was closed, the fangs not only defended the plan to close the border of Poland Belals to the applicants, but also brought other instructors in the room to support his position.
The European Commission later approved the approach, rather than disciplining Poland for the law that the civil society organization was at risk to step on asylum. The EU executives accept the member states next to Russia, and Belarus may need to close those borders to those who wish to be asylum if the emergency measures are temporarily temporarily temporarily temporarily temporarily temporarily temporarily temporarily temporarily temporarily tuned. 。
The person who cooperated closely with TUSK chose him carefully and explained that he liked to be judged by his actions, not a statement. “He’s reading a lot … he works late at night, but he’s not the biggest fan in the morning,” said the information.
Since he gained power, his government has struggled to release many policies in his previous administration. PIS still holds the presidential position, and Andrzej Duda refused the law and delayed it. The Polish Constitutional Court, which is determined by the contested law, is piled up with the PIS royalist.
Therefore, the ability of TUSK to realize his agenda in the remaining part of his four -year term depends on the results of the presidential election later this year. The mayor of Warsaw Turzakovsky, the candidate for the citizen platform, is a famous person who has done well as the mayor of the capital. Karol Nawrocki, the choice of PIS, is a historian who has little nationwide profile. The race is expected to be tight, and two rounds will be voted on May 18.
Polish military planners have studied how Russian tanks use cars and roads to quickly move toward Kiev early in the invasion of Ukraine.
Internally, the task government remains divided into Poland’s restricted abortion laws. The Prime Minister promised to expand access beyond the current strict restrictions, such as when women’s lives were in danger. The government has a lot of slim. In other words, the Polish People’s Party, one of the more conservative coalition partners, may stop trying to allow abortion within 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Malgolzata Sreka, the secretary of the Helsinki Human Rights Foundation Committee, one of the oldest citizen social organizations in Poland, said that PIS left a lot of “mines” in the state institution to make things difficult for the new government. Say.
This was the most obvious of the judiciary, and many judges were promoted by PI political appointment. “These new judge’s status needs to be dealt with because it has been appointed in a legally defective process, but they have been recognized as a judge for nearly eight years, so they cannot simply loot. She says.
Denying the judiciary without attracting accusation that the task government itself violates the rule of the law is a challenge. “In the case of these new judges, all judges should be verified individually,” says Szuleka. She says she should be disabled if it turns out that political loyalty has influenced the appointment.
As a whole, the TUSK Union has rarely advanced to the reversal of the Pis policy regarding the rule of law. For example, when ignoring the rights of an exiled applicant on the border of Belarus, she adds a double standard element to determine how TUSK was judged.
“When the law and justice do something, it was ridiculous, which was the end of democracy and the rule of law, but when the government does it in a way similar to law and justice, it finds justification. There is a trend.
TUSK has focused on the EU to support Ukraine in the battle with Russia in the battle with Russia, as he has fallen to the domestic agenda. This year, Poland is planning to defend nearly 5 % of gross domestic production (GDP) and is one of the largest military beasts of the EU along with France.
Important resources are placed aside to build defense on the side of the east side. These preparations for the Russian army to fight the potential terrestrial invasion would have seemed unthinkable a few years ago. Polish military planners have studied how to use highways and roads to rapidly move toward Kaefef in the early days of Ukrainian invasion.
The “Eastern Shield” plan depends on the slower intrusion units near the border, and ideally, the Army is purchased for several days to mobilize it completely. That means digging a trench of a tank anti -tank and blocking the intersection with a concrete structure. Land mines are stored near the border to give birth in the event of an invasion. “We have learned from the war in Ukraine,” says Stanislow Chazunek, the Polish Deputy Chief of Staff.
Defensive military accumulation may have been considered excessive in the past, but the Polish army believes the threat from the east is very realistic. Czosnek says that if Ukraine had been prepared in the same way to fight the full -fledged Russian invasion from the first day, things might not have worked in February 2022.
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