Merkel Calls Migrant Push at EU’s Border ‘Unacceptable’

Merkel Calls Migrant Push at EU’s Border ‘Unacceptable’
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki give a press conference in Warsaw, on Sept.11, 2021. Czarek Sokolowski /AP Photo
The Associated Press
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WARSAW, Poland—German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that she found it unacceptable that refugees were being used to apply pressure to Poland and other European Union members on the border with Belarus.

Speaking at a news conference during what she said she expected to be her last official visit to Poland as chancellor, Merkel appealed to Belarus, but also to Poland, to help people in difficult humanitarian conditions caught between the border of Poland and Belarus.