{"id":535195,"date":"2026-04-20T22:50:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=535195"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:23:31","slug":"eu-does-not-plan-to-ease-sanctions-against-lukashenka-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/eu-does-not-plan-to-ease-sanctions-against-lukashenka-regime","title":{"rendered":"EU Does Not Plan to Ease Sanctions Against Lukashenka Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The European Union does not intend to change its sanctions policy or ease sanctions against the regime of <strong><b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b><\/strong>. This was stated by EU sanctions envoy <strong><b>David O\u2019Sullivan<\/b><\/strong> in response to a question from Coordination Council delegation member to PACE <strong><b>Pavel Latushka<\/b><\/strong>, the Coordination Council press service <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/rada_vision\/4636\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During a meeting of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy at the spring session of PACE, Latushka asked the EU representative whether new sanctions against the Lukashenka regime would be introduced in the near future and whether there were any obstacles to this. O\u2019Sullivan replied that the European Union does not plan to change its sanctions policy.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>\u201cAll sanctions that the EU imposes against Russia are automatically extended to Belarus. The EU consistently adheres to this policy and does not plan to change it. The United States has begun easing sanctions against Belarus, which is causing concern in the EU because it creates \u2018loopholes\u2019 in the sanctions regime against Russia. The European Union considers this problematic and does not intend to follow this path\u201d<\/i><\/em>, the EU representative said.<\/p>\n<p>After the meeting, Latushka and O\u2019Sullivan held a separate meeting during which they discussed the need for further pressure on the regime. During the conversation, Latushka stressed that until Lukashenka changes his domestic repressive and foreign aggressive policies, European sanctions should not be lifted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union does not intend to change its sanctions policy or ease sanctions against the regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka. This was stated by EU sanctions envoy David O\u2019Sullivan in response to a question from Coordination Council delegation member to PACE Pavel Latushka, the Coordination Council press service reported. During a meeting of the Committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":535194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e734070a35c.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"EU Does Not Plan to Ease Sanctions Against Lukashenka Regime"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-535195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}