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Péter Szijjártó pleads for peace in Ukraine in a visit to Minsk

The Editorial Board November 8, 2023

Hungary/Belarus – Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó travelled to Minsk on October 26 to take part in the international “Eurasian Security” conference held in the Belarusian capital on October 26–27. Szijjártó was the only representative of a Western…

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Brussels expresses anger over Polish referendum

The Editorial Board August 23, 2023

Poland – Poland will be holding parliamentary elections on October 15. The ruling United Right coalition led by Law and Justice (PiS), which has been in power since 2015, has decided to hold referendums on four key issues on the same day.…

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Poland concerned about Wagner Group’s presence in Belarus

The Editorial Board August 2, 2023

Poland – The arrival and stationing in Belarus of mercenaries belonging to the Wagner Group - lead by Yevgeny Prigozhin - following their failed rebellion at the end of June 2023 is raising suspicion and concern in both Lithuania and Poland. Those…

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Poland closes its border to Belarusian goods

The Editorial Board May 30, 2023

Poland / Belarus – Making good on its threats after the Minsk Supreme Court upheld the eight-year prison sentence handed down to Andrzej Poczobut, an active member of the Polish minority in Belarus, Poland has announced that it will suspend all road…

Society

Polish minority targeted by repressions in Belarus along with democratic opposition

Olivier Bault March 8, 2023

Belarus/Poland - Poland may close its last remaining border crossings with Belarus as a retaliatory measure, according to comments made by a state secretary in the Interior Ministry, Maciej Wąsik, on Polish television channel Polsat News. “For us, [Belarus] is a small…

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Hungarian foreign minister visits Belarus

The Editorial Board February 19, 2023

Hungary/Belarus – The Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Szijjártó, visited Minsk on Monday, 13 February. He met with his Belarusian counterpart, Sergei Aleikov and Economy Minister Aleksandr Chervyakov to discuss trade relations between the two countries, as well as…

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Dublin III: France and Germany sending Belarus’ migrants back to Poland

The Editorial Board December 16, 2022

Poland – The Polish daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita reported on 12 December that the 2013 Dublin III Regulation on the member states responsible for examining asylum applications was now being strictly applied to Poland. The issue is about migrants mainly of Afghan and…

Interviews

“Even Russia does not get close to the level of repression we have in Belarus”, says Belarusian journalist

Olivier Bault March 26, 2022

Belarus – An interview with Inna Kochetkova, a Belarusian journalist who resigned in October 2020 because she refused to be muted after twenty years working for Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus, including five years as editor-in-chief of the newspaper’s weekly issue. She lives…

Politics

Does Central Europe have adversaries in the East? – I. The Belarusian lessons

Thibaud Gibelin January 28, 2022

This article was published online by Corvinák on 24 January, 2022. A bilateral meeting between Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin is to take place this February. The agenda will be quite busy: from the extension of the Paks nuclear plant by Rosatom,…

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Poland launches construction of 5.5-m tall fence on border with Belarus

The Editorial Board January 27, 2022

Poland/Belarus – Driven by the migration crisis orchestrated by the authorities in Minsk at the Polish-Belarusian border in response to European sanctions, the project to build a 5.5-metre high border fence between Poland and Belarus is taking shape, with work having just…

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Lublin Triangle: Duda and Nausėda in favour of Ukraine NATO membership

The Editorial Board December 22, 2021

Poland / Ukraine / Lithuania – A new Lublin Triangle summit (founded 28 July, 2020) took place on Monday, 20 December in Huta (Western Ukraine). It was attended by Polish President Andrzej Duda, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and their Lithuanian counterpart, Gitanas…

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Lessons from the migration crisis at the Belarusian border

David Engels December 15, 2021

Lessons from the migration crisis at the Belarusian border: When charity is extorted by force, this is called robbery Poland – The well-known Twitter site "Visegrad 24" recently wrote: "When someone knocks on your door and asks you to come in and…