Renārs Lazdiņš is a student of Riga Stradiņš University in the bachelor's program "International Relations - European Studies" and an intern at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. Renārs interests in the field of international relations are related to the EU's enlargement policy, the realized foreign policy strategy and issues of community sustainability. Also, Renārs has deeply studied and analyzed the policy approach implemented by the EU and Latvia in the context of Belarus.