The EU’s Modernisation Plan for Belarus

On 16 April in Warsaw, the European Union inaugurated the third pillar of cooperation with Belarus: “The European dialogue for modernisation”. After a regime of sanctions (considered the first pillar of EU policy) and support for civil society (the second pillar), the EU has proposed developing a program of reforms in which independent experts, representatives of political parties and Belarusian elites downstream will be included. The goal of the project is to develop comprehensive solutions for the modernisation of Belarus. However, their implementation will be difficult because of bad political relations between Belarus and the EU.