The EU's resilience and the management of hybrid threats coming from the Eastern neighbourhood: Belarus and the deliberate facilitation of irregular immigration

Edina Lilla Meszaros () and Constantin Vasile Èšoca ()
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Edina Lilla Meszaros: University of Oradea, Romania
Constantin Vasile Èšoca: University of Oradea, Romania

Eastern Journal of European Studies, 2023, vol. 14(1), 5-30

Abstract: Taking into consideration the current developments as regards the intensification of the irregular movement of third country nationals at the EU's border with Belarus, this paper sets as its main objective to assess the resilience building measures that were taken at the level of the affected Member States and that of the EU in order to manage the newly emerged border crisis. It is being argued that we are not dealing with an ordinary migration crisis, but a deliberate act of the Belarusian regime to instrumentalise migrants from the Middle East for political purposes. The research presents the facilitation of irregular immigration in a dual nexus, firstly as a hybrid warfare tool, and secondly, as a shock/stress factor disturbing the system or the prevalent status quo. After presenting the statistics on the modification of the illegal border-crossings between Belarus and the EU in the 2021-2022 period, we shall attempt to briefly analyse the resilience building measures to the hybrid threat of weaponizing migrants that were taken at both Community and Member State level, by grouping them in five resilience building categories: political/legal, institutional, inter-institutional, regulatory and societal.

Keywords: resilience; hybrid threat; instrumentalisation of migrants; Belarus; European Union; border crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.47743/ejes-2023-0101

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