The European Union’s Migration Pact and border protection in questions and answers

Jerzy Kwaśniewski

doi:10.37873/OIPress.71

Keywords: weapons of mass migration, Polish-Belarusian border, migration crisis, EU Migration Pact, hybrid war, border protection, illegal immigration, solidarity mechanism

Published: October 13, 2024

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The European Union’s Migration Pact and Border Protection in Questions and Answers

Since 2021, Poland's border with Belarus—the EU's eastern frontier—has faced unprecedented migrant pressure orchestrated by Belarusian and Russian authorities as a "weapon of mass migration" to destabilize targeted countries. Modern international law lacks effective tools to counter this abuse of refugee protection obligations.

The EU's Migration Pact—ten legislative pieces—fails to address border security. Instead, it assumes mass migration's inevitability and positive impact, focusing on efficient legalization and distributing the burden of hosting millions of illegal immigrants through a "solidarity mechanism". This approach won't resolve crises at EU's external borders.

This report examines the Migration Pact's regulations and their implications for member states, while advocating for reforms to prevent international refugee obligations from being weaponized for destabilization.

Jerzy Kwaśniewski, Ordo Iuris Institute

Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, visiting fellow at the University of Copenhagen (International Commercial Law, Comparative Constitutional Law), he has also completed courses organized by the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame and the Catholic University of Leuven. President and co-founder of the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture
and Chairman of the Board. Creator of the Institute’s Process Intervention Center. Advocate and managing partner at Parchimowicz & Kwaśniewski Law Firm. He has many years of experience in civil and criminal proceedings involving the protection of civil rights and freedoms, family rights, and children’s rights.

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