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French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel at the end of the July summit on the EU budget and recovery fund (Photo: Council of the European Union)

Merkel and Macron offer Belarus mediation, help for Navalny

French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel offered EU mediation to solve the political crisis in Belarus at their meeting on Thursday (20 August) in the south of France. \n \nMassive opposition rallies and a brutal police crackdown dominated Belarus in the last two weeks, following the 9 August re-election of president Alexander Lukashenko, which the opposition said was rigged.

"A dialogue between the authorities, the opposition, and civil society is essentia...

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel at the end of the July summit on the EU budget and recovery fund (Photo: Council of the European Union)

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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