EU Belarus Policy Stumbles as Cyprus Seeks Help Over Turkey
- Foreign ministers fail to agree on sanctions against Belarus
- Bloc’s leaders will now have to decide how to deal with Turkey
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European Union efforts to put pressure on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko are on hold, as a separate crisis in the bloc’s backyard lays bare its struggles to reconcile competing national interests.
Foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday failed to make good on their promise to sanction dozens of Belarusian officials involved in a contested election and the violent suppression of protests because of disagreements over how to deal with Turkey’s energy claims in the eastern Mediterranean.