Countering the instrumentalisation of migration – legal framework

Question for written answer E-001941/2025 to the Commission Rule 144 Mariusz Kamiński (ECR) Subject: Countering the instrumentalisation of migration – legal framework 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) 2024/13591, adopted a year ago, as well as the amendments to Regulation (EU) 2016/399 that are already in force2 and the communication published in December 20243 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 Pakistan4, as well as the latest wave of attacks on the Polish Border Guard5. 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...