The Eurasian Union can replace Europe with a free trade zone with the United States, – Die Presse
Vienna - Kyiv, January 06 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) - On January 1, the Eurasian Economic Union began its work, which in 2015 will include Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. Austrian newspaper The Press writes that the EU should not miss the chance to form a common economic space from Vladivostok to Lisbon.
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Die Presse I am confident that the formation of the Eurasian Economic Union should be viewed in the EU “as an opportunity for a new dialogue.” The publication quotes German government commissioner Gernot Erler as saying that “contacts with the Eurasian Economic Union can certainly be seen as a building block for the long-term goal of a continental economic space from Lisbon to Vladivostok.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has for a long time called on the EU leadership to consider the Eurasian Economic Union as its most important partner. “After all,” writes the Austrian publication, “the Eurasian Economic Union now numbers more than 180 million people and is intended to form a counterweight to the EU.”
Despite Ukraine's absence from the EEC, Tajikistan may join the union. This will make the union even more significant and, he believes Die Presse, it may be more effective for the EU to create a duty-free space with the Eurasian Union, and not with the United States, as is planned.
German experts on Eastern Europe Friedrich Ebert and Reinhard Krumm confirm the importance of communication between the EU and the EEC. “We have to look at them as an opportunity,” says Krumm. Friedrich Ebert is confident: “The creation of the Eurasian Economic Union is a fait accompli; The EU must not repeat past mistakes."
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