EU-Belarus people-to-people contacts

The autocratic policies pursued by Belarus's long-standing president, Alexander Lukashenko, have strained EU-Belarus ties over the years. Against this backdrop, the EU has geared all its programmes towards benefiting the Belarusian people at large. EU-Belarus relations did slowly begin to recover in the wake of the Ukraine crisis, but the backbone of EU-Belarus cooperation remains civil society support and people-to-people contacts.

Author: Naja Bentzen

ESO: Background information: Why the EU Should Engage With Belarus (Carnegie Europe: Strategic Europe, April 2017) http://www.europeansources.info/record/why-the-eu-should-engage-with-belarus/

EU: EEAS: Belarus and the European Union https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/15975/belarus-and-eu_en

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