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The EU sees the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius as an opportunity to improve ties with Belarus (Photo: Marco Fieber)

EU should open all doors to Belarus

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is interested in maintaining a freedom of manoeuvre in relations with the European Union and Russia.\n \nHe cannot always ignore the EU because his country becomes more vulnerable in relations with Moscow. His interest is not to deviate too much to the East and the EU should make best use of it to facilitate democratic changes in the country.

Opening “all gates, doors and even windows” for people-to-people contacts with this country first of all b...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

The EU sees the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius as an opportunity to improve ties with Belarus (Photo: Marco Fieber)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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