Lukashenko to take EU’s financial bait?

Lukashenko recently aired a favourable view on EU collaboration, a first official statement on the bloc since the Eastern Partnership summit shunned by Belarusian delegates. Is a breakthrough in bilateral ties in sight?

Presented by Alicja Baczyńska and John Beauchamp

In this week’s programme we take a look at the recent exchanges between the European Union and Belarus, Europe’s last resisting dictatorship.

“The time has come for the EU and Belarus to pave the way for collaboration,” said President Alexander Lukashenko in Tajikistan last week. Could the change in the Belarusian leader’s tenor denote political concessions?