Polish EU deputies rally wider support for democracy in Belarus

Bogdan Klich and Jacek Protasiewicz of the Civic Platform (PO) proposed that the EU should help finance independent radio and television broadcasts which would be transmitted from outside Belarus, accept a wide area of scholarship programs which would be financed by EU member states, and create a European Democracy Foundation to help the opposition. Other ideas include checking whether the Belarus President has foreign bank accounts and if so block them, and lower or totally cancel fees for issuing visas for Belarus citizens seeking to enter the EU. The European Parliament will vote on these propositions in the next few weeks. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) A.K.