... or Russia” choice cuts off many additional opportunities for Eastern Partnership countries
Vyacheslav Sutyrin:
Russia and Belarus: The “Post-Soviet” Interaction Model Is Exhausting
2019 marks the 10
th
anniversary of the Eastern Partnership, ... ... Belarus is active here, providing a venue for the peace talks on the Donbass; Armenia acts as a prototype testing range for EU–EAEU economic cooperation; Azerbaijan, which was, until recently, a closed state geared toward its prosperity, is another example....
... year-end 2018, Russia accounted for 49.5 percent of Belarus’ foreign trade ($35.4 billion, a growth of 9.4 percent compared to 2017). Contrastingly, Ukraine is second (7.6 percent), while China is third (5.1 percent).
The cumulative trade turnover of Belarus with all the EAEU countries was $36.5 billion at year-end 2018, while its trade turnover with the European Union was $17.3 billion (24.2 percent of the state’s total trade turnover). At the same time, Belarus sells mostly raw materials and semi-finished products to the European Union, while it mostly sells high added-value goods to Russia and EAEU ...
... presidency of the Republic of Belarus in the Central European Initiative.
On December 10–12, 2017, Minsk hosted “The European Union and its Eastern Partners: Current Approaches to Regional Cooperation” forum in the framework of presidency of the Republic of Belarus in the Central European Initiative.
The forum was organized by
Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe
, CFA,... ... opportunities for cooperation between EU and Eurasian Economic Union, in particular, between the countries that are both members of EAEU and participants in EU Eastern Partnership.
Over 70 experts from 32 European countries took part in the Forum. Elena Alekseenkova,...
