EC head der Leyen: US will expand sanctions against Belarus in early December 
The European Union (EU) will expand sanctions against Belarus next week against the background of the migration crisis. This was announced by the head of the European Commission (EC) Ursula von der Leyen, RIA Novosti reports.
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She noted that the sanctions will affect both individuals and legal entities. Der Leyen also revealed that the United States has also prepared a new package of sanctions against the Belarusian authorities. The President of the European Commission added that Washington will expand sanctions against Minsk in early December.
Earlier, the deputy of the Polish Sejm Janusz Kowalski said that Warsaw should demand from the European Union and the United States to introduce new sanctions against Belarus and Russia due to the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. According to him, one of the options for restrictions against Moscow could be sanctions on the sale of Russian coal to the EU.
On November 10, speaking at a briefing, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that any sanctions against Belarus due to the migration crisis are illegitimate. She noted that the actions of the authorities of Lithuania and Poland are more like attempts to punish Belarus, and not to resolve the crisis situation.