On March 12, 2015, in Paris the
Institut francais des relations internationals
,
Latvian Institute of International Affairs
and Latvian Embassy in France held an invitees-only seminar “
Eastern Partnership and Eurasian Union: Colliding or Matching Strategies and Interests?
” attended by international experts, French and EU government executives, diplomats and businessmen.
RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov spoke on opportunities for interaction of ...
... 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,... ... 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 worth an experiment called deliberative democracy. Deliberation is commonly referred ...
... sovereignty and political independence of Ukraine, whereas Russia views Ukrainians as pseudo-Europeans, who wish to join the European Union out of spite, that is to distance themselves further away from Russia. But this has not always been so.
In the ... ... 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 ...
