Can Russia and the European Union cooperate within the new reality? What are the new mechanisms for EU-Russia cooperation? EAEU and SREB. Perceptions from China
Igor Ivanov:
In Search of a Common Home
Antagonism between the EU and Russia has become the new norm. Relations between Moscow and its European neighbours have been developing towards a form of “escalated alienation”. In the meantime, it has ...
... such as telecommunications, mining, agriculture, and hydropower industry.
Chinese Presence and Eurasian Integration
Russia and China are currently the countries with the strongest political and economic presence in some regions in Central Asia.
Strengthening ... ... directly touches upon perspectives of Eurasian integration, as integration initiatives promoted by Moscow and Beijing, such as EAEU и SREB, are addressed towards economic and political structuring of the neighboring regional space around its own nucleus. There ...
... major challenge is institutional in nature. Russia has established the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), a multilateral grouping aimed at economic integration. It is comprised of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. Although Russia and China joined an agreement for greater cooperation between EAEU and SREB in May 2015, the prospects for true partnership between the two institutions emerging appear distant at present. The sticky issue is harmonisation of border control, customs regime and (importantly) the granting of Free Trade Area status to China....
... Department of the London Center for European Reform.
On March 28, the RIAC hosted a roundtable with Ian Bond, Director of the Foreign Policy Department of the London Center for European Reform.
I. Bond presented the newly released report "
Russia and China: partners of choice and necessity?
" And two political overviews "
Contested space: Eastern Europe between Russia and the EU
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The EU, the Eurasian Economic Union and One Belt, One Road: Can they work together?
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