Summer of EAEU Schools: Anti-Brexit Lessons of Healthy Eurasoscepticism

By the time the EAEU turned 5 years old, countries of the Eurasian Economic Union started realising what lies at the very core of its integration process. Moving away from clinical conversations about 600 barriers, exemptions and limitations, we are now approaching the “lively” subject of preventing the greatest barrier of them all – the human one.

While it might not be how we choose to frame the conversation, it is abundantly clear that we are closely watching the Euro-British “divorce” happening in front of our eyes. The “divorce proceedings” look way too familiar, as they remind those headline-grabbing court battles that usually take place at the Royal Court of Justice in London. You know the feeling: you watch the rich and powerful get divorced, and, although you might be younger and/or less influential, you wonder how to prevent it from ever happening to you.

Granted neither Jean-Claude Juncker nor Boris Johnson are storming out of the Royal Court of Justice, we are recontextualising this situation to the EAEU case with the same intellectual zealousness.

After all, certain things beg for comparison. A year after Brits voted to leave the EU, the on the partners.