Poland, Belarus' biggest EU neighbour, is urging fellow EU countries to let ordinary Belarusians travel abroad more easily in order to bring about democratic change on the model of Cold War events.
"The reason that we were able to defeat Communism in the 1980s is because so many Poles travelled to the West and saw for themselves what normal life could be like. This is what we should be doing with Belarus," a senior Polish government source told EUobserver in the context of EU talks on h...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.