EU - EAEU: the perspective from Berlin

... a wider Euro-Eurasian economic space. Major results were made within Phase I (2014-2016). IIASA is now launching a more detailed Phase II (2017-2020).The first phase of the international research project “Challenges and Opportunities of Economic integration within a wider European and Eurasian Space” aimed at discussing and critically evaluating the potential and conditions for the creation of a common economic space between the European Union (EU) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).This project had been very timely. Due to the tensioned EU-Russia political and hence economic relations, caused by the Ukrainian crisis, the interactions of the officials and experts have practically stopped since 2014. IIASA has been the only ...