Евразийският икономически съюз – конкуренция на Европейския съюз в района на Източното партньорство
Eurasian Economic Union - Competition for the European Union in the Eastern Partnership Region

Author(s): Marieta Rabohchiyska
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: EU; Eurasian Union; Eastern Partnership; Competition; Cooperation
Summary/Abstract: Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia was intensively seeking ways to reunite the newly independent republics. Six of them (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus) are part of the Eastern Partnership initiative launched by the European Union in 2009 in the broader context of its neighbourhood policy. President Putin's ambition to reintegrate part of the post-Soviet space is reflected in the Eurasian Economic Union (EES), established in January 2015, a new form of economic cooperation between Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan modelled on the European Union with the aim of establishing Eurasian internal market. Or perhaps it is an attempt of Eurasian integration and even its deepening?

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