The Belarusian leader may have won phone talks with Angela Merkel but Europe remains united against him
As migrants camped out in the woods prepared for another night of sub-zero temperatures, the Estonian foreign minister, Eva-Maria Liimets, on Tuesday revealed to an evening news programme the gist of what Alexander Lukashenko demanded of Angela Merkel in the first call between a European leader and Belarus’s dictator in more than a year.
“He wants the sanctions to be halted, [and] to be recognised as head of state so he can continue,” she said he told Merkel.
