Commission will establish a “blacklist” of companies complicit from migrant trafficking to Belarus

Migrants who have flocked in recent weeks to Belarus, usually from the Middle East, “are deceived by false infamous promises,” said Ursula von der Leyen, Tuesday, in front of the MEPs.

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The European Commission will establish a “blacklist” aimed at sanctioning transportation and travel companies that go to the traffic of migrants to Belarus, said Tuesday, November 23, his president Ursula von der Leyen before the MEPs.

She called on the European Parliament, gathered in Plenary in Strasbourg, to quickly seize and adopt this legislative proposal “today filed [Tuesday]”. The migrants who have flocked in recent weeks towards Belarus, usually from the Middle East, “are deceived by false infamous promises,” said the president.

/Media reports.