Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya called on the European Union to do more to help the Belarusian people on Wednesday 24 November in a solemn speech to the European Parliament.
“It is already late. Will the EU have the courage to act now or will we have to wait a year?”, asked the 2020 Sakharov Prize winner, adding that neither Belarus nor Europe had a year ahead of them. “We can do more than wait and react” she added, noting that “tyrants are always encouraged by...