Lithuania Calls on EU to Help Fund Securing Eastern Border
A stockpile of dragon's teeth fortifications near Latvia's border with Russia.
Photographer: Gints Ivuskans/AFP/Getty ImagesLithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda called on the European Union to help finance the fortification of the bloc’s eastern borders as the expenses strain national budgets.
“Countries on the eastern flank are taking on a disproportionately big burden of protecting the external EU border,” Nauseda said ahead of the EU leaders’ summit in Brussels on Thursday.