The EU on Wednesday (20 December) decided to impose €400 million a year worth of trade sanctions on Belarus from mid-2007, in a decision unwelcome by pro-democracy workers in Belarus and its EU neighbour states.
The historic snub will see president Aleksander Lukashenko's country get kicked out of the EU's Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) on trade with tariffs imposed on wood and textile exports to the EU and with Burma the only other country ever to face GSP expulsion.
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Already a member? Login hereAndrew 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.
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.