EU-Belarus people-to-people contacts
At a Glance
25-04-2017
The autocratic policies pursued by Belarus's long-standing president, Alexander Lukashenko, have strained EU-Belarus ties over the years. Against this backdrop, the EU has geared all its programmes towards benefiting the Belarusian people at large. EU-Belarus relations did slowly begin to recover in the wake of the Ukraine crisis, but the backbone of EU-Belarus cooperation remains civil society support and people-to-people contacts.
At a Glance
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- Belarus
- civil society
- economic policy
- ECONOMICS
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- EU aid
- EU finance
- EU financing
- EU relations
- EU restrictive measure
- EU visa policy
- Europe
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- GEOGRAPHY
- human rights
- international law
- LAW
- organisation of teaching
- political geography
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- rights and freedoms
- student mobility
- teaching
- university