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EM Lithuania: Event report on “Chernobyl’s lessons to Europe – Decades later stepping on the same rake in Belarus?”
In order to commemorate 35 years after the Chernobyl disaster, on 21 June, the European Movement Lithuania (EML) invited the European community to discuss Chernobyl’s lessons for Europe with regard to the exploitation of the unsafe Belarusian nuclear power plant in Astravyets, less than 20 km away from the external EU border and next to the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius. The Astravyets NPP is raising serious concerns not only among Lithuanians, but among the whole European community, including Belarusian society itself: can the terror regime in Belarus, which has audaciously hijacked civil airplane travelling between two European capitals, be trusted with a nuclear power station right on the EU border?
Read the full event report here.
