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EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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New EU sanctions to hit Belarusian oligarchs

Regime-linked Belarusian firms and tycoons are to face new sanctions, while meetings with Belarusian officials are being cut to a bare minimum, the EU has said.

"These sanctions should go not only to individuals [officials], but also to entrepreneurs and firms," EU foreign relations chief Josep Borrell said in Brussels on Thursday (19 November), after speaking with foreign ministers by video-link.

The visa-bans and asset-freezes will be designed to "disrupt their [the firms'] nor...

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