Publications · 14 December 2021

Expert Environment: A Series of Expert Discussions on Belarus’s Geopolitical Choice

What volume of funding is involved when projects of the Eastern Partnership are discussed?

Andrei Kazakevich, Director of the Political Sphere Institute, Editor-in-Chief of the journals Political Sphere and Belarusian Political Science Review:
The 750 million euros received by the Belarusian economy through various Eastern Partnership projects is a significant amount of money.

Loans on favorable terms were also of great importance.

According to various estimates, they averaged up to 500 million euros per year.

Following the “bridge collapse” problem, we are facing problems with the water-supply infrastructure of cities.

Funds for the development of small business will most likely also not reach Belarusian entrepreneurs.

It is also worth noting separately that Belarusian science will suffer as a priority.

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