UK GOVT: ADDED 1 NEW DESIGNATION UNDER THE BELARUS SANCTIONS REGIME 18:01, 03-Oct-2024 HUNGARY PM ORBAN: EU NEEDS TO RECONSIDER SANCTIONS AS THEY KEEP ENERGY PRICES HIGH 14:58, 15-Nov-2024 MORE FROM CGTN New classical school in Athens celebrates Greek and Chinese cultures The esta...
Today's UK sanctions also involve restrictions preventing Belarusian airlines from flying over or landing in the UK, and financial measures. These include "freezing of funds and economic resources" on sanctioned individuals, and preventing the state of Belarus, companies owned wholly or partially by ...
The British Government’s actions, broadly speaking, brought the UK in line with the sanctions imposed by the European Union in June, implementing a package of trade, financial, and aviation sanctions targeting the Belarusian regime. Authors:Leigh T. HanssonAlexander BrandtRay-Shio HoWilliam YoungOz...
While individual sanctions have not had the impact the West has sought, the EU hopes that economic sanctions under preparation can hit Lukashenko hardest. EU leaders are set on Thursday to consider provisionally-agreed sanctions on oil, finance, potash and tobacco, which were approved by ...
EU Weighing Sanctions on 10-15 Belarus Figures, U.S. Official Says More WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The European Union is looking at sanctioning 10 to 15 Belarusian figures in connection with the former Soviet republic's disputed Aug. 9 election and subsequent violent crackdown on...
The European Union has threatened to extend sanctions against Alexander Lukashenko's regime after a Minsk court sentenced Andrei Sannikov - the candidate in the disputed December 2010 presidential elections - to five years in prison. Four other defendants were handed sentences of up to three-and...
The referral of the government of Lithuania to the ICC to open an investigation into crimes against humanity and other atrocities committed by the Lukashenka regime is an important step towards ensuring the accountability of the criminal and illegitimate regime ruling Belarus.https://t.co/qGUKdR9W...
Europe has threatened further sanctions against Lukashenko after a year of intensifying brutality, which has begun to spill across the EU border. "The EU stands ready to consider further measures in light of the [Belarusian] regime's blatant disregard of international commitments," EU foreign affai...
A group of Western countries signed a strongly worded joint statement on Thursday, accusing the Lukashenko regime of "putting migrants' lives at risk" and trying to "divert attention away from its own increasing human rights violations".
She added that the EU was in the process of coordinating its sanctions with the United States, Canada and the UK. “This is not a migration crisis. This is the attempt of an authoritarian regime to try to destabilise its democratic neighbours,” she said. ...