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Meet Evgenija Janakieska! Watch the fourth video in the Let Me Say This series, this month with Evgenija Janakieska.
Belarus a country to live in
Following the falsified 9 August 2020 election results, people in Belarus took to the streets en masse to demonstrate against Aleksandr Lukashenko's autocratic regime. Due to extreme police brutality and numerous arrests, demonstrations with hundreds of thousands of participants slowly turned into smaller local protests. Yuri Stylski, musician from Brest: 'I was invited to play in a residential area in the autumn. There were many families with children. In the afternoon, a theatre group performed a play. In the evening, I was playing a few songs when someone shouted, "The beachcombers are there, quick away!" One of the residents hid me in his flat just until they had left again. Of course, they knew where to find me anyway. The police organised crime department forced me to sign a protocol stating that I would no longer act. Since then, we have only done live streams.'
New government squabbles, results stall
Progressive Romanians had hoped some things would change after the December 2020 elections. Less nepotism and empty promises, more follow-through. Those hopes have so far proved vain.
With mouthpiece to ballot in Romania
After the summer, the number of coronavirus infections in Europe increased again. Romania is no exception. The number of infections is rising, and the number of deaths is high compared to other EU countries. Schools have also now started again and elections are imminent.
Online Political Café: the future of Belarus
There is something unusual going on in Belarus (Belarus). Presidential elections were on 9 August and once again Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, won the election. But, the population is moving and speaking out and the regime seems to be under pressure more than in other years.
Belarusians tear away from President Lukashenko
In the Republic of Belarus (Belarus), there have been protests for weeks against President Alexandr Lukashenko, who has been in power for 26 years. Democratic freedoms and values are not in his vocabulary. So far, more than 300 people, including one of his most promising challenger, Viktor Babariko, have been arrested during protests against the detention and exclusion of opposition candidates. These candidates were excluded during the presidential election on 9 August. Partly due to Lukashenko's corona policy and approach towards opposition candidates, activists, journalists, bloggers and vloggers, his support is rapidly crumbling. Harshly, the president is trying to maintain his power.
'Country of the Week' - Armenia
What exactly does FMS do? Where are you active? Who are your partners? Every week we will answer all these questions and more in our new initiative: 'Country of the Week'. Each time, we will highlight one of the countries in which we operate and highlight what we do there through videos, fun facts and stories from our projects! This week: Armenia!
'Country of the Week' - Ukraine
What exactly does FMS do? Where are you active? Who are your partners? Starting this week, we will answer all these questions and more in our new initiative: 'Country of the Week'. Each week, we will highlight one of the countries in which we operate and highlight what we do there through videos, fun facts and stories from our projects! This week we kick off with Ukraine.
In conversation with MP Kirsten van den Hul on the international approach to coronavirus
On Thursday 24 April, the FMS spoke with PvdA MP Kirsten van den Hul - spokesperson for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation - about the international fight against the coronavirus and its impact on countries in Africa (and other developing countries). What is the Netherlands' role in this?
The inheritance of 1989: a missed opportunity to grow together?
The autumn of this year offers a sad picture of Britain struggling with Brexit, Trump, Putin and Erdogan playing a cynical game with the Kurds in Syria and of the EU divided over the future of the enlargement process.
How different it was during the same period in 1989 when one communist regime after another collapsed and an European Community of 12 members was preparing for a leap forward after the planned completion of the Single Market. The European Commission was led by Jacques Delors, the French social democrat.
