On Monday 12 September, Neighbourhood Policy Commissioner Johannes Hahn welcomed the election of members of the opposition to the Belarus parliament in elections on 11 September.
He told the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee in Strasbourg that although there had been deficits in terms of political democracy he was delighted with every positive development, and that two opposition parliamentarians (Ed: out of a total of 110) had managed to enter parliament.
In a press release...