
Your search for "Belarus" produced 126 items.
| 1. Danes put Schengen under renewed pressure | January 19, 2012 |
Malmström says Denmark's interpretation of common visa rules is an “unfortunate and difficult situation”. Cecilia Malmström, the European commissioner for home... |
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| 2. Embattled envoy | January 19, 2012 |
Lithuania's foreign minister enjoys a scrap. One would think that, for a small country integrated into the heavyweight machinery of alliances such as the EU and NATO, foreign... |
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| 3. EU leaders renew commitment to eastern partners | September 30, 2011 |
Concern over democracy in Ukraine, call on Belarus to release political prisoners. A summit of EU leaders and five neighbours to the east ended in Warsaw today (30... |
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| 4. Split over direction overshadows Eastern Partnership summit | September 22, 2011 |
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EU divided over the role of the Eastern Partnership. The EU's central European member states tend to see the partnership as a first step for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,... | |
| 5. The EU's eastern frontier | July 28, 2011 |
Schengen requirements have led to a drop in visa applications from the country's eastern neighbours and changed travel patterns. In the months after Poland joined the... |
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| 6. A vision for our Arab neighbours | June 9, 2011 |
How the EU can be the equal of events in the Arab world. The ongoing uprisings in the Arab world have surprised and unnerved Europe's leaders. Like recent events in eastern... |
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| 7. A vision for our Arab neighbours | June 9, 2011 |
How the EU can be the equal of events in the Arab world. The ongoing uprisings in the Arab world have surprised and unnerved Europe's leaders. Like recent events in eastern... |
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| 8. Remembering – and helping – Andrei Sannikov | June 9, 2011 |
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Belarus's political prisoners need help and so does its economy. The international community can help both. Novopolotsk is a provincial town in northern Belarus that strikes... | |
| 9. When two halves don't make a whole | May 5, 2011 |
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Turf war shows deeper problems with the EU's neighbourhood policy. Europe's attitude to its southern neighbours has rarely come under such intense scrutiny as in the first... | |
| 10. A poor start for central Europe's EU presidencies | March 24, 2011 |
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Self-inflicted damage, as well as events, have left Hungary's and Poland's presidencies of the Council of Ministers floundering. It was meant to be the year when central... | |
| 11. EU freezes Mubarak funds | March 21, 2011 |
Foreign ministers also extend existing sanctions against Belarus, Libya. The European Union has frozen the assets of Hosni Mubarak, the deposed president of Egypt, and 18... |
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| 12. The wrong role model for Belarus | February 17, 2011 |
The EU's challenge in Belarus is now to help avert a Cuban scenario. On 19 December, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka made a conscious decision to end two or three years of... |
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| 13. Member states to agree on measures against Tunisia's deposed regime | January 27, 2011 |
Tunisia's old guard faces visa bans and asset-freezes, but Côte d'Ivoire and Belarus figures face more sanctions too. National experts from the EU's member states are... |
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| 14. In a muddle over Minsk | January 20, 2011 |
The EU has difficulties dealing with Belarus. The European Commission opened a delegation in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, in March 2008, when EU-Belarus relations were... |
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| 15. Cracks in Belarus, confusion in the West | January 17, 2011 |
Simply isolating Belarus is unlikely to change anything for the better. Much ink has been spilled by journalists and commentators describing the disappointing course of... |
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| 16. Belarus tests credibility of EU's foreign policy | January 13, 2011 |
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The EU was right to offer incentives to Lukashenka, but now that has to change. Alyaksandr Lukashenka's crackdown on political opponents following December's presidential... | |
| 17. EU cranks up pressure on Belarusian regime | January 13, 2011 |
Ashton urges Belarus to release political prisoners, while diplomats say additional measures will follow. The European Union is to impose a sweeping travel ban against the... |
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| 18. Forget the quiet life, it's time to get tough with Belarus | January 13, 2011 |
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The EU will be sending out dangerous signals if it fails to take action following December's rigged election. The post-election crackdown in Belarus is a bleeding wound in... | |
| 19. EU to impose travel ban on Lukashenka | January 6, 2011 |
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Dozens of officials ‘were involved in election fraud', while Only the release of political prisoners will end ban. The European Union will shortly impose a travel ban on... | |
| 20. EU discusses responses on Côte d'Ivoire and Belarus | December 28, 2010 |
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Political and security ambassadors assess post-election crises. Ambassadors from the European Union's member states held an emergency meeting in Brussels today (28 December)... | |