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The European Union officially bans its airspace to Belarusian companies

by Willson50 on 6/5/21, 12:15 AM with 53 comments

• by skissane on 6/5/21, 6:06 AM

  If anyone is interested in reading the actual legislation, here it is: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L...

• by golergka on 6/5/21, 6:45 AM

  Good. I made a comment 11 days ago about how it will probably end with nothing, and I'm very glad to be proven wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27262707

  As a Russian citizen, EU and US need to get stop just "being concerned" and do more real stuff like this to put pressure on these dictatorships. We desperately need to get these bastards out of office and into the prison, and we need your help.

• by User23 on 6/5/21, 5:29 AM

  Can anyone with subject matter expertise please explain whether or not this will have any practical effect on the Belarussian regime?

• by throwaway4good on 6/5/21, 6:56 AM

  I think the broader issue is that eu risks losing access to Russian airspace which would be very costly for us.

• by danuker on 6/5/21, 7:13 AM

  For once I am happy that the EU made the right decision.

  Unlike some past ones that still frustrate me today:

  - https://danuker.go.ro/eu-copyright-directive.html

  - https://danuker.go.ro/gdpranoia.html

• by steego on 6/5/21, 4:42 AM

  The EU alienating themselves from Belarus makes Putin a sad panda.

• by askonomm on 6/5/21, 5:56 AM

  Given that governments have helped overturn regimes before, why isn't this being done now? Clearly it would benefit the Belarussian people (friends I have there are struggling a lot) as well as EU. Or are we just afraid of Russia too much still?