EU Tightens Sanctions on Belarus After US Moves Woo Minsk
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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko at Independence Palace in Minsk.The European Union expanded sanctions against Belarus, just days after the US said it would lift restrictions on exports of potash from the country, underscoring diverging approaches to the close ally of Russia.“If the Belarus regime doesn’t change its behavior, we might be both at different speeds and at different directions with the US,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said Monday in Brussels.