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Once that package will be adopted early next week we would have brought to the people of Belarus since August 2020 over \u20ac100 million to support civil society,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> The EU believes that it is important to invest in people to create a stable civil society, the EU official said,&nbsp;and to support independent media. He added that aid&nbsp;had already been extended in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2021, the European Commission announced a \u20ac3 billion economic support plan for a future democratic Belarus. It said that the package would be activated as soon as Belarus embarked on the&nbsp;democratic path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 1, BPN. The EU is about to unwrap a bulky support package for the Belarusian civil society, the European Commission\u2019s Jeroen Willems has said. 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