Democracy on the ballot

The EU’s growing migrant war with Belarus

Europe

Sanctions have effectively killed any leverage the EU might have had over Minsk

Gabriel Gavin

Unlike economic sanctions, kicking out known and suspected KGB officers has no real cost to us

Mark Galeotti

‘Wolf Warrior’ diplomacy is, in fact, a carbon copy of Kremlin megaphone diplomacy

Raffaello Pantucci

‘If you want to punish Lukashenko, give every young Belarusian a plane ticket and a Schengen visa’

Owen Matthews

Europe

We have become too comfortable to do anything but appease and appease

Rod Liddle

Europe
May 27, 2021
For journalists like Protasevich, free speech is a matter of life and death
Belarus’s treatment of Roman Protasevich puts western cancel culture in perspective
Toby Young
Europe
May 25, 2021
Germany’s Belarus blindspot
The opposition in Belarus has long complained that the Lukashenko regime can survive because of western economic support
Katja Hoyer
Europe
May 25, 2021
The Belarus hijacking reveals the West’s complacency
We have failed to inflict a cost on the ruling elite of an almost three-decade-old dictatorship
Jade McGlynn
Europe
May 25, 2021
Why Lukashenko keeps getting away with it
Western sanctions never affect those who dominate politics in Minsk and Moscow
Tim Ogden