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EU to blacklist transport companies involved in human trafficking amid Belarus border crisis
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In the midst of the geopolitical confrontation unravelling at the Belarus-Poland border, the European Commission has unveiled new plans to punish transport companies that aid and abet the smuggling and trafficking of people.
The draft law will apply to all kinds of transport – land, air and sea – and will empower the executive to suspend a range of rights, including the right to provide transport services, to fly over and transit across EU territory and to refuel and carry out maintenance.
The move comes in response to growing suspicions over the role played by Belarusian state-owned carrier Belavia.
Brussels believes the airline helped Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko to bring migrants from the Middle East and African countries all the
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