The Cube Belarusian KGB used fake accounts to stir border tensions, says Meta Facebook's parent company also said it had removed dozens of fake Polish accounts that posed as migrants. 02/12/2021
Europe News Brussels accused of 'weakening asylum rights' to manage Belarus crisis The European Commission is facing backlash after it proposed to give Poland, Latvia and Lithuania more flexibility to process asylum applications. 01/12/2021
Europe News Watch: Belarus' opposition leader urges EU to respond with 'values' The Belarusian opposition leader tells Euronews the only way to solve the ongoing border is to dismantle the regime of Alexander Lukashenko. 24/11/2021
Europe News EU to blacklist transport companies involved in human trafficking Under the new rules, the European Commission will be able to suspend flights, limit operations and withdraw licences across EU territory. 23/11/2021
state of the union Europe's week: Belarus border crisis dominates agenda Tensions between Minsk and Brussels continued to simmer over migrants attempting to cross into the bloc. 19/11/2021
Europe News EU to slap Belarus with new raft of sanctions over border crisis The blacklist of targets believed to be involved in human trafficking will be developed over the coming days. 15/11/2021
state of the union Europe's week: Belarus, Facebook whistleblower and Google loses appeal These are the stories occupying minds in Brussels this week. 12/11/2021
Europe News EU urged to stand firm against 'desperate and illegitimate' Belarus A surge of migrants attempting to cross into Poland from Belarus has brought international condemnation and threats of more sanctions against Lukashenko's regime. 09/11/2021
Europe Decoded Should Brussels fund border walls at EU frontiers to stop migrants? Twelve member states, including Austria, Denmark, Poland and Hungary are calling on the European Commission to provide money to construct anti-migrant fences. 08/11/2021
Europe News EU considers sanctions against Belarus airline over migrant arrivals The bloc's foreign ministers were in Luxembourg on Monday to discuss possible action against Belarusian company Belavia. 18/10/2021
The Cube Belarus threatens to criminalise certain social media channels Belarus' Main Directorate for Fighting Organised Crime has said that citizens who subscribe to "extremist Telegram channels and chats" are also criminally liable. 14/10/2021
Europe News Poland carried out migrant push-back at Belarus border, Amnesty says Poland, Lithuania and Latvia have declared states of emergency at their borders with Belarus over an influx of migrants. 30/09/2021
Europe News EU suspends visas for Belarusian officials amid migrants row Brussels believes the Lukashenko regime is sending migrants towards the EU's eastern border in order to destabilise the bloc and sow chaos. 29/09/2021
Uncovering Europe Meet the hackers trying to bring down Belarus' disputed president The crackdown in Belarus may have stopped public dissent, but as these hackers suggest, it could be just driving it underground. 14/09/2021
Europe News Brussels working on fresh sanctions against Belarus over migrants The European Commission confirmed to MEPs that new measures targetting the Lukashenko regime were being prepared. 02/09/2021
Europe News Belarus migration is 'act of aggression towards EU', says Johansson "Member states are in a position to decide how they protect their external borders and they are the best ones to assess how to do that," Johansson added. 25/08/2021
Uncovering Europe Belarus sprinter under guard in Poland longs for normality “I would like to go back to normal, to visit the city and enjoy the summer, but I understand that it is dangerous," Krystsina Tsimanouskaya told Euronews. 20/08/2021
Uncovering Europe Is Lithuania's 550-km border fence going to be money well spent? MPs approved the border fence earlier this month after a surge in the number of migrants arriving at Lithuania's frontier from Belarus. 18/08/2021
Belarus Lukashenko denies involvement in death of Belarusian activist Shishov Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko denied involvement in the death of an activist in Kyiv last week, claiming he was "nobody" to the regime. 09/08/2021
View The struggle is not over for a democratic Belarus | View One year after elections widely viewed as unfair, Franak Viacorka, advisor to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, says they will continue to fight for reforms and that the regime’s recent actions are desperate. 09/08/2021
Uncovering Europe The raid that killed off Belarus' last independent media platform The raid is symptomatic of a wider crackdown on dissent in Belarus since the disputed reelection of Lukashenko last August had sparked huge protests. 05/08/2021
Lithuania Belarus to tighten border amid row over migrants with Lithuania Defence and security agencies were ordered to "close every metre of the border" in order to stop migrants that Lithuania turns away from coming back into Belarus. 05/08/2021
Ukraine Ukraine steps up protection of Belarusian exiles after activist death The announcement came after a Belarusian activist who ran a group helping Belarusians fleeing persecution was found hanged in Kyiv. 05/08/2021
Belarus 'Freedom is worth fighting for': Prominent Belarus dissidents on trial The trial of Maria Kolesnikova and Maxim Znak, both leading members of the opposition, takes place amid an intensifying crackdown on dissent in the ex-Soviet republic. 05/08/2021
world news Belarusian sprinter leaves Tokyo after refusing to return home Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has boarded a plane to Vienna after her team allegedly tried force her home. 04/08/2021
world news 'No one is safe': Tears and fears at Kyiv vigil for dead Belarusian As they gathered to pay tribute to activist Vitali Shishov who was found dead in Kyiv on Tuesday, Belarusian exiles in Ukraine said they no longer felt safe from their country's autocratic leader. 04/08/2021
