... the parliament, its authority is limited compared to national parliaments of the 28 EU members. Hence, democracy deficit looms large.
Okay, democracy, you say. Maybe it is not what Eurasian integration needs. In fact, there is even no such a thing as Eurasian Union. First and foremost, it should come into being. Besides, looking at the domestic institutional designs of Russia, Belarus und Kazakhstan one can come to conclusion that democracy is not what the leaders of these three states concerned with. There is therefore no hope that EAU would be any more democratic than European Union.
There is, however, one thing ...
... piece published by the Economist, in addition to gas blackmail, Russia is planning to tighten the screws on the Russian businesses of Ukrainian oligarchs, who have been calling for European integration, in an effort to corral Ukraine into Kremlin-led Eurasian Union. Short-sighted and quintessentially imperialistic, this policy will push Ukraine even further from Russia instead of forcing Kiev into submission. To achieve its ends, the Kremlin needs to recalibrate its understanding of Russia-Ukraine relations by letting the Ukrainians shape their own destiny. Force and cooptation are bad instruments for integration,...
... global crisis and simultaneous major geopolitical shifts in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region, which prompted Moscow to prioritize a more insular approach. In 2009 Putin accelerated the creation of the Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, and in 2011 suggested establishing the Eurasian Union. The Common Economic Space bringing the three countries together has formally in operation since 2012.
Even with Moscow’s renewed impetus, this integration process is only likely to succeed if Russia and its partners concentrate on ...
... promoted by negative evaluation of the historical past.
Unfortunately, neither the Eurasian idea, nor any other socio-cultural base in Uzbekistan could now be considered as a basis for integration of building relationships within the framework of a Eurasian Union, led by Russia.
The way out of this situation may be an intensification of Russian-Uzbek relations in the humanitarian field in the following areas:
Deployment of state programs for social and cultural adaptation of migrant workers in Russia;
Promotion of tolerance ...
The fate of the Union State
The fate of the Belarus-Russia Union State continues exciting the Russian and Belarusian political classes. With the arrival of the integration project, the Customs Union as one Common Economic Space (CU-CES), should be transformed into the Eurasian Economic Union by 2015, the ...
Eurasian Labor Market Formation Risks for Russia
The CIS countries’ joining the Eurasian Union will lead to changes in the migration management principles in the region and increase the number of legal migrants to Russia. This will result in considerable advantages for employers and foreign workers, while also increase the risks ...
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. This in turn has spurred the growth of nationalist sentiment against integration with Russia. Accordingly, Kazakhstan, as its official representatives have stated, needs time to adapt its economic and social system to integration with Russia.
Prospects of the Eurasian Union
In principle the failure to sign a treaty would not lead to any negative consequences. On the contrary, it would offer an opportunity to elaborate on respective documents. As is shown by the previous experience of the development of post- ...
