- Belgian MPs to consider resolution on lifting EU sanctions against RussiaBelgian opposition party Parti Populaire has proposed a resolution that would call on the country’s government to pressure EU authorities to lift anti-Russian economic sanctions. The parliament’s Foreign Relations Commission is to review it in October, party MP Aldo Carcassi, who penned the document, told Ria Novosti. The resolution states that the sanctions, which were imposed in 2014 and renewed several times since then, are hurting Belgian businesses.