Paper tiger or game-changer? Challenges of and opportunities for EU engagement with the Eurasian Economic Union. Bruges Regional Integration & Global Governance Papers 1/2015
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2015

The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) started work on 1 January 2015. Considered as Russia’s response to the EU’s Eastern Partnership (EaP), it has been almost ignored in Brussels. However, with the Ukraine crisis and the deteriorating relations with Moscow, some European leaders have begun to reconsider Putin’s proposal for a region-to-region engagement. This paper tries to analyse under which conditions this could represent a long-term solution for a new European order. First, it is argued that th