Europe is famous for its political fault lines, and a new one has now emerged: the divide between the ‘core EU’ and peripheral countries subservient to the US on foreign policy, such as the UK, Poland, and the three Baltic states.
According to German mainstream newspaper Die Welt, citing its own sources, the bloc’s three most powerful members have united to overrule tough proposals on Belarus, which were pushed by Warsaw and the Baltic capitals. Berlin, Paris, and Rome have refused to sanction Belarusian president-elect Alexander Lukashenko over last month’s disputed election. Germany, France and Italy stated that “despite the circumstances, communication channels with Lukashenko should be kept open,” because, in their opinion, his blacklisting would lead to a complete suspension of dialogue with Minsk, Die Welt explained.
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