Russia has already proposed a €1.3bn loan to president Alexander Lukashenko (to write off part of Belarus' outstanding debt to Russia) - which only guarantees the further exploitation of Belarusian citizens (Photo: Pixabay)

Minsk on the edge means whole Eastern Partnership is at risk

EU & the World

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by Quincy Cloet and Wojciech Przybylski, Warsaw,

The new proposal for financial assistance and trade support to Belarus should be understood as an investment to safeguard part of the broader EU neighbourhood from negative scenarios for the whole of Europe.

Until a free and internationally-recognised election is held and basic rule of law reforms are introduced in Belarus, the propo...

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Quincy Cloet and Wojciech Przybylski are editors of Visegrad Insight and the German Marshall Fund of the US report Eastern Partnership Futures published in spring 2020 that outlines four scenarios for the of Eastern Partnership and individual countries of the region.