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EU Observer (21 February 2022)

By NIKOLAJ NIELSEN

The prospect of war in Ukraine has prompted speculation about the readiness, not to mention the willingness, of the EU to handle a large number of potential refugees heading westwards. 

Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia all share a border with Ukraine, which has 31 official border crossings with those EU states — the majority, 12, with Poland. Romania has nine crossings; Hungary six; and Slovakia four.

That very porousness of the border poses questions on those EU states' contingency plans that, for the most part, have remained confidential.

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