Tusk: immigrants a tool in new hybrid war

The huge influx of immigrants into Europe is being used by some to weaken the European Union, President of the European Council Donald Tusk said during a debate at the European Parliament on Tuesday. "For us, refugees are people who need our help. Yet, there are powers for whom the influx is just a dirty business or a political bargaining card," Tusk pointed out. In his opinion, "we are the witnesses of a birth of new form of political pressure. Some may call it a new hybrid war," and the immigrants pose a tool, a weapon against neighbors. Internal conflicts inside the EU "give a hand to our antagonists," he claimed and appealed to not allow  Europe to become "a scapegoat."