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EU hit Belarus regime lifeline running via Lithuania – but to what effect?
Andrew Rettman, euobserver2021.07.06 08:00
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The EU will have to strike harder at Belarus top company, Belaruskali, to influence the regime, its workers have said. Current sanctions hardly harm the ability of Belaruskali to work in the EU, the Strike Committee of the Belarusian firm, which makes potash, a fertiliser component, told EUobserver in a statement on Saturday. The regime can still trade in fertilisers and transport smuggled cigarettes in [train] wagons with them, it added. For sufficient pressure, it is necessary to include all types of potash [in the EU ban], and all stakeholders both in Belarus and abroad, it also said, naming Austrian firm Soltrade as a key partner of Belaruskali in Europe.
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The EU will have to hit harder at Belarus top company, Belaruskali, to influence the regime, its own workers have said. Current sanctions hardly harm the ability of Belaruskali to work in the EU, the Strike Committee of the Belarusian firm, which makes potash, a fertiliser component, told EUobserver in a statement on Saturday (3 July).
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