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Weaponised illegal migration could come to Australia too, Poland warns

London | Eastern Europe may seem geopolitically remote from Australia, but Poland has a warning for Canberra: authoritarian regimes’ hybrid-warfare tactics, including weaponising illegal migrants, could happen elsewhere – and eventually surely will.

“Belarus is using migrants as a tool to threaten Europe, to destabilise Europe,” Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski told The Australian Financial Review. “This will definitely be used again, in many places in the world.”

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Hans van Leeuwen is international economy editor for The Telegraph UK. He was previously The Australian Financial Review’s Europe correspondent.

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    Original URL: https://www.afr.com/world/europe/weaponised-illegal-migration-could-come-to-australia-too-poland-warns-20211211-p59gpw