The EU and the Global Economy

|5 pages |13-12-2010 | | Not evaluated |
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Presentation

The European Union has been trying to improve relations with is eastern neighbours since the 1990's. What kind of agreements are currently in place between the EU and Russia, Ukraine, Belarus or Moldavia? In fact the EU has developed two kinds of agreements, one for Russia and another for its other Eastern neighbours: Ukraine, Belarus and Moldavia. Can these arrangements be considered as an adequate substitute for EU accession?

Extract

Since the establishment of official relations between the European Community and the ex USSR, the Russian-European dialogue has been improved as a result of changes in both partners.
Russia and the European Union describe their partnership as strategic. We can note that Russia is the EU’s third biggest trade partner, with Russian supplies of oil and gas making up a large percentage of Russia’s exports to Europe. Neither one nor the other, however, has made the effort to raise the question of the evolution of this long term partnership.
With the agreement of partnership and cooperation of 1997, the Community Strategy to 1999 and TACIS, the EU has, at least apparently, a complete range of tools in its relationship with Russia.
The EU's TACIS program (Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States-CIS) was established in December 1991. It was a Financial Instrument for technical assistance, it aims at encouraging "the establishment of conditions for market economy and strengthen democracy" in Eastern countries.
“The partnership and cooperation agreement” has been established, in 1997 between Russia and EU. This partnership defines primarily an institutional and policy. Indeed, it underlines the will of common values based on democracy and respect for human rights is enshrined in the preamble.
The PCA also implies economic and trade agreements. The PCA is expected to put in place the conditions for the eventual establishment of a zone of free trade.

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Table of Contents

1. Russian Integration
2. Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus
3. Four challenges
3.1 Democratic
3.2 Economic
3.3 Energy related
3.4 Migration
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