Lithuania during its presidency in the EU Council would like to achieve to improve the relationships between Belarus and the EU, but has too limited tools for it.

On July 9, 2013 the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee approved a report on the situation in Belarus. What has changed and what is to become with 292 amendments to the document?

According to the senior analyst of the Centre for European Transformation, punitive measures for unsanctioned public surveys are intended primarily for independent media.

What institutions of the civil society Belarus is lacking today and how can we solve this problem?

His assessment of the situation with the major institutions of the civil society in our country made Andrei Yahorau, political scientist and the head of the Centre for European Transformation, in the interview with the EuroBelarus Information Service.

The Belarusan National Platform conducted its annual conference on 1 June 2013 in Minsk. The two main issues discussed during the conference were the recommendation of Belarusan organisations for participation in the 5th meeting of the Civil Society Forum in Chisinau and the election of a new chairman as well as the members of the Coordination Committee.

On May 31 heads of government held a CIS council meeting with the Prime Ministers from all six member-countries of the CIS.

The mistakes in the draft report mainly result from the lack of united position among Belarusan political players the European Parliamentary had meetings with.

The realism of “Tell the Truth!” Campaign unification with the Movement for Freedom and Belarusan Popular Front Party (BPF Party) around the initiative of the “People’s Referendum” evokes certain doubts.

Transformation potential of the European Dialog on Modernization (EDM) can be increased at the expense of better communication and dialog between the potential participants of the modernization processes.

Wider collaboration with Russia in the military sphere brings no good for the independent Belarus; moreover, it might even impede the development of the relationship with the EU in the future. This opinion in the talk with the EuroBelarus Information Service shared Andrei Yahorau, political scientist, the director of the Centre for European transformation.