EU must prepare for more migrants trying to enter, border agency chief says

FILE PHOTO: Fabrice Leggeri, Executive Director of EU border agency Frontex, speaks during an interview with Reuters at Frontex headquarters in Warsaw, Poland September 8, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo

WARSAW (Reuters) - The EU must be prepared to face an increase of migrants trying to enter the bloc, with the arrival of many from the Middle East through Belarus set to continue for a long time, Fabrice Leggeri, director of the EU border agency Frontex, said on Friday.

The European Union accuses Minsk of creating the crisis as part of a "hybrid attack" on the bloc - distributing Belarusian visas in the Middle East, flying in the migrants and pushing them to cross the border illegally.