2024-07-25 14:28:09
“Instrumentalization of migration is a way that Russia can exert pressure and influence security and social stability in Finland and the European Union. The new law prepares Finland for the possibility that Russia can continue to exert such pressure in the long term and in a much more serious and large-scale way,” Politico quotes the Finnish Ministry of the Interior.
The publication writes that Poland, Lithuania and Latvia already adopted similar laws in 2021 after the leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, caused the border crisis. Belarus lured migrants in the Middle East and diverted them to the EU border in retaliation against EU sanctions.
Helsinki Times writes that the law provides that the government, in consultation with the president, can stop the reception of asylum seekers from third countries in certain border areas.
The President of Finland, Alexander Stubbs, at the recent summit of the European political community in Great Britain, emphasized that there has been an increased understanding in Europe that instrumentalized migration is different from asking for asylum.
2024-07-25 14:28:09