As with any form of blackmail, it would be pointless and dangerous to make concessions – It would send a signal to other authoritarian rulers that such tactics work
The Austrian newspaper quotes from Joanna Hosa’s, Gustav Gressel’s and Pavel Slunkin’s latest commentary on the Polish-Belarussian border crisis
If Poland is to cooperate with the EU on this, these two issues have to be disassociated as much as possible
The EU would have to convince Poland that the border crisis won’t be linked to the rule-of-law fight, Joanna Hosa tells DW
Whatever we may think about the Polish rule of law crisis, the EU must act in its own interest
Brussels should separate the crisis at the Polish bor der from the confrontation over the rule of law, thinks Piotr Buras
It’s a crisis of security, which could get much worse […] and it’s a very serious humanitarian crisis, because Europe can’t accept people starving & freezing on the border
We need to extend and tighten sanctions against Lukashenko’s ‘cruel regime […] there’s no way to negotiate anything.’
Piotr Buras comments on the situation on Polish-Belarussian border
Lukashenko is interested in having dead bodies on the Polish-Belarusian border because, from his perspective, that would compromise European values
Thanks to Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa, the Belarus crisis is on centre stage – a thing that the leaders of opposition never made happen before
The Belarusian people who work in tech not only want economic impact, but they want to transform it into political influence
Pavel Slunkin looks at why so many Belarusians have become politically involved since 2020
For companies, especially in the energy sector, this means one thing above all: they have to assess geopolitical risks, analyse their risk exposure and examine different political scenarios
Jonathan Hackenbroich and the Agora Strategy Group analyse which further escalation steps in Belarus could still threaten the energy sector