The EU will not fund “barbed wire or walls”, the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said, in defiance of calls from some governments to build protective defenses against migrants seeking to enter the bloc.
The Guardian: Ursula von der Leyen says EU will not fund ‘barbed wire and walls’
A member of a group of migrants believed to be from Afghanistan stands as he tries to confirm their will to apply for international protection in Poland in the presence of Polish volounteer lawyers, press members and Polish Parliament deputies, in the small village of Usnarz Gorny near Bialystok, northeastern Poland, located close to the border with Belarus, on Aug. 20, 2021.
