The EU will allocate more than 60 million euros to Latvia to reinforce the border with Belarus

BERLIN, July 15. (DPA/EP) –

The European Commission will allocate a total of 63.5 million euros to Latvia for the Baltic nation to strengthen the protection of its land border with Belarus.

This financial aid will be used to monitor the border with the neighboring country through modern surveillance systems, as reported by the Ministry of the Interior in Latvia.

The Latvian authorities have also pointed out that, as part of the strengthening of the border, a physical barrier will be erected, in this case financed by the Government of the country.

Latvia shares with Belarus a land border of just over 170 kilometers with Belarus, a country that does not belong to the European Union and a close ally of Russia, involved in the invasion of Ukraine for almost five months.

Latvia accuses Belarus and its president, Alexander Lukashenko, of moving immigrants from crisis regions to the border in an organized manner, thus putting hundreds of people at the gates of the European Union territory.

Already last summer the border situation between the European bloc and Belarus intensified when thousands of people tried to enter the territory of the European Union illegally.