A Hazy Future for European Integration

... pragmatism and objective economic factors. Countries began restoring wrecked ties on a new basis, although on a smaller territorial scale, trying hard to find new forms and models for post-Soviet integration. These developments have brought about the Customs Union and the process of multi-level and multi-speed integration. Hence, the Eurasian and European integration drives appear to have the same methodological basis. According to Lithuanian political scientists, the current logic of multi-speed integration means that core countries deepen mutual integration, strengthen their negotiation positions vis-à-vis nonaligned states, thus pushing others to joining the company [6] ...