EU Agrees To Imposes More Sanctions On Belarus

 

The Guardian: EU agrees new sanctions against Belarus over border crisis 

Sanctions to target ‘people, airlines, travel agencies and everyone involved in this illegal push of migrants’ 

The EU has agreed on new sanctions against Belarus targeting “everyone involved” in facilitating the transport of people to Belarus’s border with Poland, where thousands are stuck in makeshift camps in freezing weather. 

The EU accuses Alexander Lukashenko’s regime of waging a “hybrid attack” against the bloc by allowing people from the Middle East who are desperate to reach the EU to fly into Minsk then head for the Polish border. 

Josep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, said the decision by 27 EU foreign ministers reflected “the determination by the European Union to stand up to the instrumentalisation of migrants for political purposes”.  

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Update #1: EU agrees new framework for Belarus sanctions (DW)  

Update #2: EU agrees new sanctions on Belarus as border crisis deepens (Al Jazeera)  

WNU Editor: Baltic leaders want more .... Baltic leaders urge EU to 'hold Belarus accountable for human trafficking' (Euronews). But in the end these new sanctions IMHO will not make much of a difference .... Will fresh EU sanctions on Belarus make a difference? (DW).