The European Commission has drafted a blueprint of what Belarusian people could expect if the country normalised relations with the EU, in an attempt to undermine the official Minsk message that "nobody in the west is waiting" for political reform in the country.
The commission will on Tuesday (21 November) deliver a policy paper - obtained by Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza - called "What the European Union could bring to Belarus" to Minsk's embassy in Brussels, officials in Belarus and ...
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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.