German Foreign Minister Maas: The European Union will tighten personal sanctions against Minsk 
Belarus, and will also consider sectoral restrictions. This was stated by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, TASS reports.
The diplomat noted that the EU does not see an alternative to a tough position against Minsk, since the Belarusian side contributes to the aggravation of the situation with migrants on the Polish-Belarusian border.
Earlier it became known that the EU plans to impose sanctions against the National Airport of Minsk and the Minsk Hotel due to the migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. According to the Financial Times, the sanctions list will be finalized over the course of several weeks, as the union is coordinating its response with allies.
Prior to that, the official representative of the EU's foreign policy service Peter Stano said that the new restrictions against Minsk will affect everyone involved to the “dirty, inhuman and illegal business” of transporting migrants to the Belarusian borders with the EU. The association blamed the current migration crisis on the regime of Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.