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Does EU aid support opposition or dictatorship in Belarus?

For some it looks like the EU's aid to Belarus is not a waste of money by faceless bureaucrats, but a strategic policy that covers important issues in European security; for others it does not. 12.11.2013 | 10:55

Bў-ROOM – Belarus’ creative spot at the Summit

The event will gather policy makers, diplomats and Belarusan activists to demonstrate the most successful examples of civil initiatives in Belarus. 10.11.2013 | 12:25

Policy brief: Challenges for deeper EU integration with Eastern Europe

The EU will have to tackle three challenges to keep the EaP on track; and cooperation with Belarus with an allowance for the speciﬁc situation in the country, is one of the three challenges. 08.11.2013 | 08:08

EU External Action has listed all restrictive measures imposed on Belarus

In addition to the description of the current situation in Belarus-EU relations, the factsheet enumerates all limitations and sanctions starting from 2004. 06.11.2013 | 10:53

Belarusan National Platform has adopted a resolution-letter to the EaP Summit in Vilnius

The results of the meeting in Chisinau, draft Strategy of the EaP CSF for 2014-2016 and a letter to the EaP Summit in Vilnius were high on the agenda at the Conference of the National Platform. 06.11.2013 | 09:24

Milinkevich on “black list” shortening: This is an absolutely correct step

These are just signals from Brussels to the official Minsk, and real steps will follow only after political prisoners are released. 05.11.2013 | 10:14

Andrei Yahorau: We can’t blame the EU for the persistently unchanging situation in Belarus

Why does the European Union have no grounds to abolish “black lists”? Why European Dialog on Modernization is only Belarusans’ missed opportunities? What should we do to make the regime introduce refo 01.11.2013 | 09:57

Ulad Vialichka: The decisions re EaP Summit made by state make Belarus look like outsider

The chairperson of the Coordination Committee of the National Platform of the EaP CSF on the eve of the Summit sums up the results of the first day at Belarusian Human Rights Forum in Vilnius. 30.10.2013 | 11:26

European Union: Sanctions against Belarus extended for one more year

On October 29 European Union has extended sanctions against Belarus until October 21, 2014, reports press service of the Council of the European Union. 30.10.2013 | 08:52

Belarusan Foreign Ministry withdrew from “Minsk Forum” in Vilnius

Belarusan Foreign Ministry isn’t participating in the conference “Future EU policies towards Belarus” that takes place on October 28-29 in Vilnius. 28.10.2013 | 17:34

Opinion:Ukraine-EU Association Agreement means Belarus is last bastion of Russia in Europe

Recently Ukrainian Prime Minister completed his visit to Belarus, where he tried to find common ground with Lukashenka, a likely advocate for Kyiv in its relations with Russia, writes Ryhor Astapenia. 26.10.2013 | 12:30

Office for a Democratic Belarus issues a policy brief on liberalization problem

The main question touched upon by ODB is whether the recent amendment to the EU visa rules can become a trigger for negotiations on visa liberalisation between the EU and Eastern Neighbours. 25.10.2013 | 08:20

Ulad Vialichka: We will put forth the stand of the civil society

Despite all sorts of forecasts on the subject of political standstill in the country, this autumn bears a whole number of important events. 24.10.2013 | 10:02

Common Statement by Carl Bildt and Radosław Sikorski: Making Europe Whole

In spring 2008, Sweden and Poland initiated work on the Eastern Partnership — a more ambitious policy for the EU vis-à-vis six Eastern European neighbours seeking closer relations with the Union. 23.10.2013 | 10:34

Sanctions from the EU can be renewed at any time.

Belarus issue had not been put on the agenda of the forthcoming meeting EU foreign ministers are to have in Luxembourg, Maja Kocijancic says. 22.10.2013 | 08:23

Andrei Yahorau: At the Summit in Vilnius, Lukashenka is persona non grata for EU

The scenario similar to that happened at the summits in Prague or Warsaw, when the official Minsk deliberately reduced its representation there, is hardly going to happen again. 18.10.2013 | 08:53

Eastern Partnership countries receive invitations to the November Summit in Vilnius

The press office of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry doesn’t specify who is invited to the Summit specifically from Belarus. 17.10.2013 | 17:31

EU and Belarus: Applying the “goat principle”

An old Belarusan joke suggests a simple way of improving one’s life. 16.10.2013 | 18:51

Uladzimir Matskevich: There is no use to look for sense in “situational politics”

We shouldn’t attach any importance to the monologue played for the audience, even if it lasts for five hours. Politics is formed differently. 14.10.2013 | 08:50

Belarus will be invited to the EU summit as a country

Official invitation won’t state any specific surname. 13.10.2013 | 08:37

Ulad Vialichka: We are still lagging behind

In spite of quite unconvincing stance of the official Minsk in its relations with the EU, there are grounds which allow to count on certain reboot of Belarus-Europe relations. 09.10.2013 | 09:21

Ulad Vialichka: Summit will be a certain point

Fifth annual Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum is going on in Chisinau. 07.10.2013 | 09:43

Štefan Füle voices hope for concrete sectoral projects

European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy held a speech at the opening of the Civil Society Forum which takes place in Chisinau. 07.10.2013 | 08:26

New organization for uniting successful Belarusan emigrants opens in Lithuania

Global Belarusan Leaders organization came into existence at the end of August in Vilnius. The founders propose an alternative to the conventional Belarusan émigré networks, explains Vadzim Bylina. 06.10.2013 | 09:42