The EU Policy To-wards Belarus in the Context of the Presidential Elections on 19 December 2010

Abstract

The authoritarian regime of the president of Belarus A. Lukashenko makes the European Union’s policy towards Belarus completely diff erent from the policy with regard to its other neighbours. Th e main aim of the paper is to show and analyze EU’s policy towards Belarus in the context of presidential elections in Belarus in December 2010. In the fi rst part of the paper, the author very briefl y describes the UE’s policy towards Belarus before elections. Th e following part is devoted to the most important events in the EU’s policy towards Belarus in the context of the last Belarusian presidential elections. Th e summary contains an analysis of reasons why the UE’s policy towards Belarus and its president A. Lukashenko is so difficult and, up to the present, rather ineffective.