The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, pleaded on Thursday 27 May, at the end of the informal meeting of EU Foreign Ministers (Gymnich) in Lisbon, for a rapid adoption of the sanctions agreed by EU leaders on Monday 24 May on Belarus.
“We need to move forward quickly”, he said after the meeting, at which ministers discussed the measures.
Ahead of the meeting, Mr Borrell explained that the aim was to give the EU Council’s working...