President Alexander Lukashenka faces his toughest challenge yet. But Belarusians won't forget that in this crisis, civil society has proved more resourceful than the state.
With young people on tenterhooks, a robust recovery includes a European Green Deal and the enforcing of Article 7 sensible safeguards against treaty violations.
If you think the answer to the rise in the radical right threat lies in counter-terrorism and/or counter-extremism policies, you are looking in the wrong place.
We should distinguish between Orban’s rightfully penalized measures of ruling by decree and less stringent regulations meant to curb the unruliness of a class which has placed itself above the law.
“As public health and societal debates play out in the coming months, I very much hope that we can hear more of the voices of those deemed ‘vulnerable’.”