Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001941/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Mariusz Kamiński (ECR)
State actors are exploiting migrants to artificially create migratory pressure as a tool to achieve political goals and for destabilisation. Migratory pressure has been used in this way at the EU’s external borders in Greece and Spain. However, it is the EU’s eastern border that has borne the brunt of this phenomenon; Moscow and Minsk have been instrumentalising migrants – with no regard for the humanitarian cost – in order to achieve geopolitical goals. While Poland, the Baltic States and Finland have been decisive in their response to this situation, the EU’s response has been, and continues to be, delayed and inadequate considering the scale of the threat.
I am certain that Regulation (EU) 2024/1359[1], adopted a year ago, as well as the amendments to Regulation (EU) 2016/399 that are already in force[2] and the communication published in December 2024[3] will do little to discourage Minsk and Moscow from continuing to engage in this kind of hybrid warfare. This is evidenced not least by the agreement Belarus has signed with Pakistan[4], as well as the latest wave of attacks on the Polish Border Guard[5]. Against this backdrop, it is concerning that, in February, the Commission’s 2025 work programme announced the withdrawal of its proposal for Regulation 2021/0427(COD) on addressing situations of instrumentalisation[6]. As a Parliament rapporteur, my view is that the original draft was outdated and failed to meet expectations. No comprehensive alternative was provided for the withdrawn draft. It is particularly worrying that the instrumentalisation of migration was omitted from the proposal for Directive 2023/0439(COD)[7], as recognised by the Council[8].
- 1.Has the Commission consulted the countries that have been the target of instrumentalised migration, and does it consider the legal framework for countering this phenomenon to be adequate?
- 2.Why has the Commission omitted the issue of instrumentalisation from the proposal for Directive 2023/0439(COD)?
Submitted: 14.5.2025
- [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1359/oj/eng
- [2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/399/oj/eng
- [3] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52024DC0570
- [4] https://www.rferl.org/a/lukashenka-belarus-pakistan-migrants-eu/33382244.html
- [5] https://wpolityce.pl/kraj/726559-atak-migrantow-na-straz-graniczna-wsrod-nich-bialorusin
- [6] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52021PC0890
- [7] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/procedure/EN/2023_439
- [8] https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-15916-2024-REV-1/en/pdf