MEPs

On September 16, the European Parliament adopted the recommendations to the Council of the EU, the European Commission, and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the direction of EU-Russia political relations.

A film by blogger Stsyapan Putsila and the NEXTA editorial board, “Lukashenka. Golden Bottom” appeared on social networks on March 8. It has been viewed more than 6 million times.

Twenty members of the European Parliament have addressed European Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, seeking to bring his attention to the importance of ‘deepening people to people contacts between citizens of Belarus and the EU member states’.

On July 1, people gathered in the centre of Brussels to express solidarity with Belarusians and protest against the persecution of politicians and civil society activists in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, European lawmakers Miriam Lexmann (Slovakia) and Andrius Kubilius (Lithuania) have come with an initiative to address an open letter to the people of Belarus.