Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 07/2011

Divided we fail: Time for the EU to speak with one voice to Belarus

Anaïs Marin

June 2011

Finnish Institute for International Affairs

Abstract

Brussels’ attempts to draw Belarus closer to the EU have evidently failed. Active engagement with the regime did not result in democratisation nor a rapprochement with the EU any more than the previous policy of isolation did.