The European Union has place sanctions on Belarus for the governments violence, repression and election fraud following the disputed Belarusian presidential election in 2020, which Alexander Lukashenka claimed victory for his sixth consecutive term as the country’s president. Following a year of protests and international incidents with dissenting Belarusian nationals, a migrant crisis on the Belarusian border with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia has recently caused relations between the Belarus and the EU to become increasingly troubled. The EU blames the recent surge in asylum seekers trying to enter Poland, Lithuania and Latvia through Belarus on the Lukashenka regime, accusing Belarus of using migrants as a form of hybrid warfare. However human rights organisations have also voiced concern over the use of illegal asylum seeker pushback policies by EU countries which EU member states seem to be in support of. Does the EU actually have the bigger role in making this a bigger crisis than it had to be?

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