Belgium is weighing up concern for lost jobs at home with lost lives in Ukraine as it ponders relations with Russia's royal-friendly richest man.
When Ukrainian MP Alex Goncharenko buttonholed Belgian prime minister Alexander De Croo at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Germany last month, the Ukrainian urged him and the EU to blacklist the Russian steel tycoon — Vladimir Lisin.
"He [De Croo] said: 'The problem is that Lisin is responsible for a lot of jobs in Belgium. And...
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