Poland has reframed the debate on migration through the lenses of national security, forcing the EU to change its tune. View on euronews

Poland's six-month presidency of the European Union is firmly focused on security. As Europe’s biggest land war in decades rages, fewer places highlight the challenges and contradictions of defending the bloc and its values more starkly than the border with Belarus.

Poland joined other EU countries in allowing the Israeli leader entry without threat of arrest, this time for a ceremony commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz — which Netanyahu had no intention of attending anyway.

Russian president Vladimir Putin and his ally in neighbouring Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, have sought to weaponise migration by pushing thousands of migrants brought from elsewhere in the world over the EU’s borders in an effort to fuel support for anti-immigration far-right parties.

Active support for Ukraine by EU member states in repelling Russian aggression, including continued and increased defense aid, expansion of sanctions against Russia, as well as the opening of the first negotiation clusters on EU accession are Ukraine’s main priorities during the Polish presidency of the EU Council in the first half of 2025.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting Poland after the two countries reached an agreement on a longstanding source of tensions between them: the exhumation of Polish victims of World War II-era massacres by Ukrainian nationalists.

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It’s urged Poland “to drastically change course of action" and do all it can to protect migrants and refugees. But EU leaders signed off on Poland’s actions at a summit last month.

Poland has promised Netanyahu safe passage to an Auschwitz memorial service. Former and current EU officials are speaking out.

European leaders are using Sir Keir Starmer’s struggles to increase Britain’s defence spending to convince him to join a €500 billion (£420 billion) rearmament scheme funded by common debt...

Poland’s government has added border checkpoints to its list of critical infrastructure to restrict potential attempts to block the Polish-Ukrainian border in the future. — Ukrinform.