By Kiryl Haiduk, Elena Rakova, Vitali Silitski, eds.

The Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies undertook, in cooperation with its partners, a comprehensive study of the implicit ‘social contracts’ underlying the relationships between state and society and providing a source for political stability and social order in contemporary Belarus. The English-language version of the book is now available in the electronic format.

We present the address “EU-Belarus relations and prospects for the future” by the  Head of the Unit for Relations with Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Southern Caucasus at the Directorate General for External Affairs of the European Commission John Kjaer at the Conference "Belarus's path in Europe".

The third annual conference of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies carried out under the title ‘Belarus’s Path in Europe’ in Minsk successfully concluded on 10 February 2010.  Being held in Minsk for the first time, BISS conference turned into the real platform for a dialogue between all the sides concerned about the future of Belarus and shaping this future with its decisions and actions. The conference brought together representatives of the government and the opposition, official and non-governmental NGOs and press, independent analysts and representatives of government research centers and universities, National Academy of Sciences and leading European think tanks,  experts from Moscow and Brussels.

Conference ‘Belarus’s Path in Europe’ concluded with the final panel ‘The Way ahead: The Eastern Partnership as a framework for Belarus-EU relations’.

We are proceeding with the key-moments from the discussions that are taking place in the framework of BISS annual conference ‘Belarus’s path in Europe’, held in Minsk’s Crown Plaxa Hotel, today, Feb.10.

The conference ‘Belarus’s Path in Europe’, organized by BISS is taking place in Minsk, today. The third panel ‘The economic context: Belarus and the EU, and the Global Economic Crisis’ was dedicated to the adjustment of the country’s economy to the global economic crisis.

The second day of the Third BISS conference started with the discussion regarding the ways for Belarus to achieve energy independence.

The experts from Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, and the UK shared their views on the perspectives of energy politics in the region.

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For the first time, BISS holds its annual conference in Minsk. Throughout the first day of the event, the experts from the EU, Russia and Belarus were hotly debating the country’s place in the new geopolitical realms.

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“Belarus and the European Union in the Changing Regional and Global Context”, this will be the topic of the debate between representatives of the leading European research institutes“Belarus and the European Union in the Changing Regional and Global Context,” this will be the topic of the debate between representatives of the leading European research institutes.

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The Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies presents the first issue of BISS Trends, the quarterly monitoring of political, economic, and social developments in Belarus.

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