Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys called the Belarusian authorities’ decision to declare EHU an “extremist organisation” outrageous and expressed support for the university.
“Minsk’s move to brand the European Humanities University – an accredited Belarusian university in exile in Vilnius – an “extremist organization” is outrageous.
It puts students, faculty, and families at serious risk and obstructs access to independent, unbiased education.
It is yet another hostile act by the Lukashenko regime against Lithuania and the EU. We stand ready to back the EHU community,” Budrys wrote on X.
Earlier on Tuesday, Belarus’s Supreme Court declared the Vilnius-based European Humanities University, together with its structural subdivisions, an “extremist organisation”.
The Prosecutor General’s Office said that EHU’s activities are supervised by foreign states and foundations and claimed that the university’s work is aimed at “destabilising the socio-political situation” in Belarus. The Prosecutor General’s Office believes that the university is preparing Belarusian youth “to implement Western scenarios for transforming the political system, promoting so-called democratic values and ‘alternative’ interpretations of historical, cultural and other events”.
