The EU wants to be a global superpower – but it has Russia to contend with
As the Belarus border crisis intensifies, migrants are once again being used as a geopolitical weapon against the EU.
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Helen Thompson
Helen Thompson is a politics professor and a contributing writer to the New Statesman.
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