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When talking about the desire of a number of countries to expand their cooperation in trade and manufacturing with the countries of the Customs Union and to sign a free trade zone agreement with it, we should note that official talks on this subject are currently only taking place with Vietnam. According to Cao Quoc Hung, Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, the two ...
... additional political institutions are unlikely to bear fruit. Today, Brussels operates as an umbrella for emerging peripheral trade areas in Southern and Eastern Europe, primarily through the Central European Free Trade Association in the Balkans, the Customs Union with Turkey and the intended expansion of the trade area within the Eastern Partnership. This is part of an overall program aimed at creating free trade areas between the EU and various regions of the world. In addition to existing agreements ...
Yerevan recently stated its intention to join the evolving Eurasian integration project, beginning with the Customs Union. We met with Aza Migranyan, PhD in Economics, Head of Economics Department at the CIS Institute, to discuss Armenia's economic potential within the Transcaucasian environment, as well as economic and energy relations between Armenia and ...
... end of the Cold War, has become increasingly dependent on market factors and transnational competition. Ukraine found itself in the thick of the geo-economic confrontation between the two trade areas, closing in on it from either side. Although the Customs Union is a new and institutionally weak grouping, it is clear that an attempt at reformatting the economic space could arouse serious concern among European and American proponents of West-to-East market expansion. It should be noted that at the ...
Armenia and the Customs Union: a Forced Maneuver or Conscious Choice? At the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius on November 28-29, 2013, Armenia chose not to sign the Association Agreement and the accompanying accords on the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area ...
... supporters of EU integration. The development has served as a graphic demonstration of the differences within Ukrainian society and the political divide that marks the schism. It is the people of Ukraine who should decide whether the country is to join the Customs Union or opt for European integration and the signing of an association agreement with the EU. Kiev should proceed from an understanding of the implications this step will have for the Ukrainian economy, industry, agriculture, and society. Ukraine ...
... Association Agreement. It’s been known that such an agreement would be against Russia’s well-articulated geopolitical interests, and that it would much prefer to see its South-Western neighbour join its own regional integration project, the Customs Union. It’s been known that Moscow will deploy every tool to undermine it – and that it has a number of areas for potential blackmail. It’s been known that therefore Ukraine will decide the integration contest Russia had provoked ...
... Partnership is not likely to have been originally intended by the EU as a new European watershed, by 2012-2013 it can be viewed as an inadequate response to the obvious achievements of post-Soviet integration that have led to the establishment of the Customs Union. Economic and political integration offers the only efficient pattern for the evolution of Europe over its history. There is no alternative to progressive processes of integration, although it may be imprudent to confuse the logic of economic ...
... post-Soviet space, which gave rise to certain dichotomy of interests. But in recent years, Moscow has stepped up its integration efforts and presented clear-cut cooperation priorities. The Eurasian Economic Community platform was used to establish the Customs Union (CU) of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan; the creation of the Common Economic Space (CES) is underway; the creation of a supranational Eurasian Economic Commission is in progress; and plans for establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union ...
... most important carrots for countries of the Eastern Partnership. Ukraine’s negotiations with the EU over the Association Agreement, which contains the DCFTA, were concluded at the turn of the year 2011. On the opposite shore stands the offer of Customs Union, consisting of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. In the following article, I will briefly analyze possible outcomes of finalization of one or another in the light of most recent developments. Two important meetings of Ukrainian President ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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