The latest remarks on border protection come in the face of the threat posed by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
ADVERTISEMENTLithuanian and Polish defence ministers called for the “internationalisation” of the protection of the EU and NATO’s eastern border as they toured a stretch of the border fence with Belarus near Vilnius on Monday.
During an official visit of the Polish deputy PM and defence minister to Vilnius, Lithuania’s Defence Minister Laurynas Kasčiūnas told reporters that the national border defence system would require an estimated €600 million over a decade.
His Polish counterpart, Wladislaw Kosiniak-Kamysz,…
