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This expert forum will discuss the European Union's policies on Belarus in the context of the latest developments in the country. The European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, Štefan Füle, will present his views on existing EU policy towards Belarus and its prospects for success. Two panels with prominent Belarusian and European experts, including Pavel Daneyko, Director of the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Centre, Arkady Moshes, Senior Researcher with the Finnish Institute for International Affairs, and Aliaksei Pikulik, Academic Director of BISS, will debate the political and economic situation in Belarus and its bilateral relationships with the EU and Russia. Belarus is facing a historical choice that will determine the path of its evolution: it could become part of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s “Eurasian Union”, or the country and its people might in time pursue integration with Europe. So far, Belarus’ position has been to remain firmly in the middle of these two options.