{"id":91206,"date":"2024-06-17T19:47:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T16:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/91206\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"eu-stops-150-illegal-entry-attempts-from-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/91206\/","title":{"rendered":"EU stops 150 illegal entry attempts from Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>June 17, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> The European Union stopped 150 illegal entry attempts from Belarus yesterday, according to border guards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lithuanian border guards reported two incidents, and Latvian border guards reported 11. Their Polish counterparts foiled 430 violations in the past three days, including 137 yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This month, the EU stopped 2,995 illegal entry attempts from Belarus, a 73-percent increase from the first 16 days of June 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 21,808 such attempts were reported in 2024, an annual increase of 26.4 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The migration crisis at the Belarusian-EU border started in spring 2021 after Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka, angered by EU sanctions, had indicated that Minsk would not prevent migrants from Africa and Asia from using Belarus as a route to the EU. It escalated in November 2021, with hundreds of migrants storming the Polish border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June 2021, the Belarusian government announced the suspension of a readmission agreement with the EU in response to sanctions that followed the forced landing of a Ryanair flight in Minsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pozirk<\/em>\u2019s analysis of daily stats indicated fluctuated tension at the Belarusian-EU border throughout 2023 with illegal border crossings picking up the pace in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Baltic states and Poland accused Belarusian authorities of creating the trouble, while the latter blamed it on the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 2023, the interior ministers of Poland and the Baltic States warned that they would close the border with Belarus in response to a surge in illegal migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/policija_germanija_fb_1128x752-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/policija_germanija_fb_1128x752-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/policija_germanija_fb_1128x752-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/policija_germanija_fb_1128x752-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/policija_germanija_fb_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/policija_germanija_fb_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Germany news<\/label>\n\n                            <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Security<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Germany news, Security<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Despite surge at Polish-Belarusian border, Germany apprehends fewer migrants using the route<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">June 17, Pozirk. The German police reported a sharp decrease in illegal entries by foreigners from Poland and Czechia via Belarus, Deutsche Welle reported. In the first five months of 2024, it registered 2,215 entries, whereas in the same period &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/91111\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 17, Pozirk. The European Union stopped 150 illegal entry attempts from Belarus yesterday, according to border guards. Lithuanian border guards reported two incidents, and Latvian border guards reported 11. Their Polish counterparts foiled 430 violations in the past three days, including 137 yesterday. This month, the EU stopped 2,995 illegal entry attempts from Belarus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[14,30,13],"class_list":["post-91206","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-security","rubric-society"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EU stops 150 illegal entry attempts from Belarus | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 17, Pozirk. The European Union stopped 150 illegal entry attempts from Belarus yesterday, according to border guards. 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