EU to Broaden Belarus Sanctions on Monday Over Migrant Crisis: Borrell

EU to Broaden Belarus Sanctions on Monday Over Migrant Crisis: Borrell
A group of migrants moves along the Belarusian-Polish border towards a camp to join those gathered at the spot and aiming to enter EU member Poland, in the Grodno region on Nov. 12, 2021. Leonid Shcheglov/Belta/AFP via Getty Images
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PARIS—EU foreign ministers will widen sanctions on Belarus on Monday to include airlines and travel agencies thought to involved in bringing migrants to the bloc’s border, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.

The EU has accused Belarus of encouraging migrants to come to its territory and pushing thousands of them to cross into Poland and other neighboring EU states in retaliation for sanctions already imposed on Minsk.