Pressure is mounting on the European Union (EU) to deal with the alleged weaponisation of migrants by Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. Lukashenko and his regime ordered thousands of migrants from the Middle East to be shipped to the EU borders in Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, threatening the cohesion and solidarity between the EU and its northern member states. “Lukashenko used migrants, who were encouraged to come to Belarus, as a weapon,” Dr. Wojciech Lorenz told The Epoch Times. Lorenz, an analyst at the Polish Institute of International Affairs, says Lukashenko is motivated by three things: the de facto international recognition of his regime, sanctions relief and taking revenge on those who support the democratic opposition in Belarus. “Poland and the Baltic states were exceptionally active after the falsified presidential elections in Belarus last year and exerted pressure on the regime to limit the repressions against the opposition,” Lorenz said. “They …