MINSK, 16 November (BelTA) – The way the refugee crisis at the Belarus-Poland border is resolved will determine whether Europe will be able to avoid a regional crisis, political analyst, Director of the Center for European Integration Yuri Shevtsov wrote in his Telegram channel, BelTA has learned.
“These people are going through these ordeals because they want a better life for themselves and their children. At the same time, strangely enough, these Kurds, Arabs, Afghans, people from Sub-Saharan Africa keep a lid on the frenzy of nationalism. The outcome of the current migrant crisis will in many ways determine whether Eastern Europe will be able to avoid a major regional crisis,” the expert said.
According to him, this nationalism is rooted in Poland's desire to create a new version of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. “The diminishing regional role of Poland due to the humanitarian crisis on the border is a step away from the point at which Eastern Europe would slide into the state of the war-torn Donbass. The sooner all these oriental people get to Germany, the more chances Poland will have not to end up in the same situation as it was during the times of Piłsudski and Rydz-Śmigły and not to pull the entire region to a new big catastrophe,” Yuri Shevtsov summed up.
