EU condemns Belarus "pressuring" Lithuania with migrants: Michel

FILE PHOTO: European Council President Charles Michel holds a video meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron ahead of EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Belgium June 21, 2021. Olivier Hoslet/Pool via REUTERS

VILNIUS (Reuters) - The European Union "speaks with one voice" in condemning a decision by Belarus to allow illegal migrants to cross into Lithuania in response to EU sanctions, European Council President Charles Michel said on Monday.

The Lithuanian government declared a countrywide emergency on Friday as the flow of mainly Iraqi migrants arriving from Belarus reached around 150 per day, more than had entered annually in any of the preceding three years.