http://www.eurobull.it/EU-weakness-legitimizes-Lukashenka Last week a positive spirited Solana visited Belarus and Lukaschenka, leaving complaints and demands on the side. Isolation has for sure never been a good recipe to cure an autocracy but I wonder if Solana's uncritical handshaking with Europe's last dictatorship is the right alternative? In 2006 the EU made 12 proposals to the Belarusian authorities concerning normalization of relations. This included democratic elections, freedom of information and press, an end to political harassment and (...) en SPIP - www.spip.net http://www.eurobull.it/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH104/arton2707-4dff3.jpg http://www.eurobull.it/EU-weakness-legitimizes-Lukashenka 104 144