Working Paper No. 37/2018
This working paper explores the prospects, risks and positive effects of Serbia joining a Free Trade Agreement
with the EAEU. An analysis of current free trade agreements has demonstrated that Serbia strives to maintain a
multi-vector foreign economic policy that straddles Europe and Eurasia. Serbia’s agreements with its European
partners clearly reflect its tendency to systemically fit into the European context, while its agreements with the
countries of the EAEU are...
... diasporas and
USD 126.7
billion of bilateral trade over the years and continues to grow. Today, Indian businesses are more dependent on the U.S and Europe as preferred markets than Russia.
A survey report
on the prospects of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) prepared by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce (FICCI), has highlighted the series of challenges faced by the Indian businesses in the EAEU region. Over 80% of the total respondents have their ...
On November 13, 2017, the Embassy of New Zealand in Moscow hosted a meeting for Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, Andrey Kolesnikov, Chair of the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center, and Rob Taylor, Head of European Department at New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
On November 13, 2017, the Embassy of New Zealand in Moscow hosted a meeting for Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, Andrey Kolesnikov, Chair of the Russian...
The emergence of new political formats is usually accompanied by mistrust of the critically minded expert community. However, the emergence of the Russia-Azerbaijan–Iran bloc spanning the western coast of the Caspian Sea could become a powerful impetus for the interpenetration of the three countries’ economies and for institutionalizing political dialog. Are the summit participants themselves interested in such a development, and if so, then under what conditions?
On August 8, 2016 in...
... two-way trade by 2020. Vietnam and Thailand have both set a target of US$10 billion in annual trade within five years, up from the current US$4 billion with Vietnam and US$2 billion with Thailand.
In Sochi, Mr Putin proposed a free trade agreement (FTA) between ASEAN and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), an economic forum of five former Soviet republics, including Russia, as well as greater economic cooperation among ASEAN, the EEU and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (which includes both ...
... will Vietnam’s free trade agreement with the EU impact the country’s economy and politics
On December 2, 2015 the European Union and Vietnam signed a joint
statement
officially concluding negotiations over the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA). For Vietnam, this document will be a sound ending to a Free Trade Year of sorts: in 2015, similar agreements were signed with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and South Korea not to mention the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). Observers ...
Interview with Alexander Knyazev
Soon after breaking free from the shackles of economic sanctions in July, Tehran proposed a Free Trade Area (FTA) with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), a recent brainchild of Russian foreign policy. We met with Alexander Knyazev, Senior Research Fellow at the RAS Institute for Oriental Studies, to discuss how Moscow can combine cooperation with Iran with its ...
... this end, the Vietnamese have a considerable amount of experience in this area, and the latest deal before the EEU agreement was signed with South Korea. Russia can learn a lot from them. However, there is some controversy around this issue. Parallel FTAs with the European Union and the EEU may spell trouble for Vietnam because technical barriers differ and adapting products and certificates to the two sets of requirements at once is extremely complicated. Hanoi would certainly be happy to obtain ...