... contemporary international system.
Andrey Kortunov:
Hybrid Cooperation: A New Model for Russia-EU Relations
One can imagine a stronger European Union and a reformed Russia (together with other members of the Eurasian Economic Union) constituting two interdependent ... ... asymmetries less significant and less disturbing for EU. Moscow states its fundamental interest in a stronger EU, Brussels recognizes EAEU as a strategic partner. In the end of the day, relations between EU and EAEU become similar to that between EU and ASEAN....
On March 2, 2018, in Tallinn, Estonian Center of Eastern Partnership held the 5th annual Tallinn Conference on the Eastern Partnership.
On March 2, 2018, in Tallinn,
Estonian Center of Eastern Partnership
held the 5th annual Tallinn Conference on the Eastern Partnership.
Diplomats, independent experts, senior officials, and journalists representing countries both inside and outside the EaP framework gathered for the Conference.
Participants debated topics such as: preliminary results of implementation...
... 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 ... ... 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,...
Is the Yerevan–EU agreement compatible with Armenia’s commitments in its relations with the EAEU and Russia?
The agreement with the EU may advance Armenia’s energy security in the power sector in the medium and long term.
On November 24, 2017, Brussels will host the Eastern Partnership Summit. Armenia and the European Union are planning to sign the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement, initialed in March earlier this year. The instrument is a lite version of the association agreement the parties developed, but did not sign due to Yerevan’s 2013 ...
... are a lot of obstacles that explain why such cooperation faces difficulty in being launched: poor relations between Russia and the EU; and EAEU economic performance, which is not comparable to the EU. But one of the most salient problems is that the European Union perceives the EAEU solely as an organisation of political integration.
After having analysed the existing perceptions among Russian experts on Greater Eurasia and the possibilities of EU integration into this project, it may be interesting to analyse perceptions of ...
... regional states. Chinese loans are by no means cheap and in the future may turn out to be unsustainable for the Central Asian economies. This is likely to entail Central Asian and South Asian states’ political orientation towards China. While the European Union, who has long been trying to “tear off” Central Asia from Russia after the collapse of the USSR, obviously would not like to completely devolve the region into the power of China. The EU also fears the geopolitical consequences of the ...
The European Union (EU) has been active is Central Asia since the breakup of the Soviet Union twenty-five years ago. Despite its geographical ... ... diversifying infrastructure away from Russia. The majority of states in the region are now members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) which has its own legal and regulatory base. When investing in Central Asia, China should work within the EAEU framework ...
... promise of alleviating the difficulties faced by many Moldovan migrants in Russia, negotiate the lifting of agricultural embargos, and least doable — pick up on Transnsitrian conflict. President Dodon was also present at the Eurasian Economic Union’s (EAEU) Bishkek gathering on April 14, as Chisinau plans to be the first among those seeking observer-state status in the organization — a major U-turn from the Eastern Partnership pursuits claimed before.
In Armenia this changing spirit of the times ...
... at Carnegie Europe, a Brussels-based think-tank dubbed Armenian people '
European
' due their spiritual-cultural heritage and way of life, and stressed the importance of 'shared values' in the new EU-Armenia agreement. The speech came a day after the European Union and Armenia agreed on the "
Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement
" (CEPA), which will substitute the obsolete Partnership and Cooperation agreement (1999)
.
Armenia thus far has been cooperating with the
EU
within ...
... Can they work together?
"
After short introductory words of I. Bond the discussion of the presented works took place. The round table was attended by researchers and experts interested in the issues of Russian-Chinese relations, the policy of the European Union toward Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe. Among them: V. Portyakov, Deputy Director of the Institute of the Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yu. Kulintsev, Research Fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern ...
