Trouble at the border: Belarus and the EU

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: Trouble at the border: Belarus and the EU
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• Duration: 00:21:21
• Published: 2021-11-10 12:15

Around 2,000 people from the Middle East are at the European Union’s eastern frontier. Alexander Lukashenko, the autocratic Belarusian president, promised them passage to the EU. They are pawns in a long dispute and their plight is bleak. Tension is mounting in north Africa, between Algeria and Morocco. And who said words were cheap? The cost of newsprint is soaring. 

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