Where do EU sanctions lead?
Publisher: Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies, Belarus
Dzianis Melyantsou of the Belarusian Institute for Stategic Studies (BISS) considers the impact of the European Union’s sanctions imposed against the regime of President Alexander Lukashenka.
Melyantsou is highly critical of the program in this biting analysis, citing a number of reasons why the sanctions do not work and in fact may be worsening the lives of ordinary Belarusians.
He called for increased contacts with Belarus instead, writing that “Paradoxically, the best remedy in the current framework is to expand the cooperation with Belarus in all sectors. Brussels’ answer to the closedness and incredulity of Minsk should involve an expansion of cooperation and communication at all levels of society.”
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