Macron’s Frustration Shows Limits of EU Influence in Belarus
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French President Emmanuel Macron praised new European Union sanctions against Belarus while acknowledging that the measures might not suffice.
The 27 EU leaders meeting in Brussels vowed to add more Belarusian officials to an existing sanctions blacklist and adopt a broader set of punitive measures that would target companies and entire sectors of the country’s economy. They also demanded the immediate release of Raman Pratasevich, the 26-year-old Belarusian journalist who was detained when a Ryanair plane was forced to land in Minsk Sunday.