Belarus to Learn Maidan Lessons

... integrate it into Europe. For its part, Minsk seemed equally interested in intensifying economic relations with Europe, despite the political differences between the two sides. In April 2015, when the expert community was busy discussing the future of the Eastern Partnership, Alexander Lukashenko stated bluntly after a meeting with the European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Johannes Hahn that the programme should be restructured and that it was necessary to move “from the conventional ...