🌏 Negative assessments of the process of Eurasian integration are due to the fact that expectations do not correspond to its realities and essence.

This essence lies, first of all, in the fact that the key word in the name of the EAEU is “economic”, which also determines the realities of practical integration. The economic nature of the integration association is fully reflected in the Treaty, the preamble of which states that it was signed by parties driven by the “desire to strengthen the economies”. Also, the Treaty clearly defines the main goals of the Union (Article 4) and all of them are economic: stable development of economies; the creation of a single market; modernisation, cooperation and an increase in the competitiveness of economies. The founding document of the EAEU contains no other goals.

In the next decade progress in the development of Eurasian integration will obviously prevail over its problematic nature, as has been confirmed by the experience of the past seven years, writes Vyacheslav Dodonov, Senior Reseach Fellow, at the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Kazakhstan.

🔗 Eurasian Integration: Progress and Problems

🔵 The article is published within the framework of a new Valdai Club programme “Asia and Eurasia”.

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🌏 Each of the states not directly involved in the European conflict will strive to ensure that its negative impact on the development of national economies and the ability to ensure their own security is less than could be imagined in the worst-case scenario.

In this sense, for the small and medium-sized states of Eurasia, which make up the majority of the members of the CSTO and the EAEU, the task will be how to use these institutions in the interests of their own development in an international environment that is becoming less and less favourable.

In the case of Kazakhstan, the CSTO countries have shown for the first time their ability to make the organisation an instrument of internal stability - now any forces that intend to destabilise allies from the outside or from the inside know that they may face a strong response.

Now it becomes relevant for all CSTO countries not only to coordinate their actions, but also to create new practical mechanisms for responding to emerging external and internal threats, writes Timofei Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.

🔗 The CSTO and EAEU in a New Era: From Abstraction to Practice

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🌏 It is difficult now to operate with abstract schemes like the respected concept of “Greater Eurasia”, but it is quite clear that real interaction, which makes it possible to reduce the threats from a world economic war and even gain benefits from it, will do more for implementation in a common space than any ideas of a general nature, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev.

🔗 The CSTO and EAEU in a New Era: From Abstraction to Practice

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