http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210826-233031-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-eus-face-in-lukasenkas-mirror/ The EU’s Face in Łukašenka’s Mirror Kochenov, Dimitry Vladimirovich Grabowska-Moroz, Barbara eng 2021-08-26 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Belarus ECHR Migration Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On the Polish-Belarusian border thirty-two Afghan citizens have been sitting quite literally between the Belarusian border guards on the one side and Polish border guards, army and police on the other for two weeks now. They sit there without access to water, food or medical aid. They sit there claiming their rights under EU and International law. Yet, they are not allowed to ask for asylum or establish any contact with the outside world. The tragic situation of those thirty-two hostages exemplifies both how devastating the consequences of rule-of-law backsliding might be and how closely linked the rule of law breakdown in Poland and the general denigration of EU values in the field of migration are.