EU border agency to significantly step up Lithuania help

Migrants from Cameroon rest at the refugee camp in the village of Vydeniai, Lithuania (Mindaugas Kulbis/AP)

The European Union’s border agency is pledging to “significantly” step up its support to Lithuania in the coming days “due to the growing migratory pressure at Lithuania’s border with Belarus” that the Baltic nation is trying to contain.

The decision by Frontex, the agency responsible for coordinating border control between EU member states and third countries, was announced late on Saturday following a video call between Frontex’s executive director Fabrice Leggeri and Lithuanian president Gitanas Nauseda.