One important point as #EUCO leaders debate the need for a ‘temporary’ (some suspect it will become permanent) border wall at the EU’s Eastern border with Belarus:
Any EU country is free to build a wall on their portion of EU external border. The question is who will pay for it.
Any EU country is free to build a wall on their portion of EU external border. The question is who will pay for it.
As Trump found out, it’s expensive to #BuildTheWall. His was never built.
Do they work for their intended purpose? Is it worth the enormous expense, taking money away from education, infrastructure,etc?
Should all EU/US taxpayers have to pay for walls, or just the border state?
Do they work for their intended purpose? Is it worth the enormous expense, taking money away from education, infrastructure,etc?
Should all EU/US taxpayers have to pay for walls, or just the border state?
“Why should this burden [of a wall] be paid exclusively by Lithuanian taxpayers?” Austria's new chancellor Alexander Schallenberg asked today.
Austria is one of the non-border member states pushing hard for an EU external border fence/wall.
Austria is one of the non-border member states pushing hard for an EU external border fence/wall.
Here's an explainer on the context behind today's #Belarus #migration discussion at the #EUCO summit in Brussels:
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