In a speech to the European Parliament on Wednesday 13 September, the leader of Belarus’ democratic political opposition, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, said that the European Union was her country’s “final destination”.
“We want to be part of this family. We want to go home to Europe. Europe is in our DNA”, she emphasised to a Parliament that had rallied to her cause, recalling that the Belarusian democratic forces had adopted a declaration defining their country’s accession to...