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OSW Commentary | | Zuzanna Krzyżanowska

On the trail of the grey wolf pan-Turkism in Turkeys foreign policy

Ankara’s active policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia is linked among other things with pan-Turkism, an idea which advocates the integration of the Turkic nations. It is continuously present in the political culture of the Turkish state…
Analyses | | Maciej Falkowski, Rafał Sadowski

EU-Georgia delay in the visa liberalisation process

The visa issue has had a great impact on the attitude of the public and the elites in Georgia towards the EU and the West.
OSW Commentary | | Jan Strzelecki

The Eurasian Economic Union a time of crisis

The economic crisis in Russia is affecting the uncompetitive post-Soviet economies which are dependent on Moscow.
OSW Commentary | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz, Ewa Fischer

The Eurasian Economic Union – more political less economic

While the Kremlin presents the EEU as the Eurasian equivalent of the European Union, the project is in reality an imitation of integration.
Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

Customs Union summit in the context of Ukraine

The continuing conflict in Ukraine has raised concerns among Russia’s key partners in the CIS area.
Analyses | | Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga

The Customs Union summit crisis instead of success

The Customs Union summit revealed crisis of the Russian project of integration instead of success, which is so desired by the Kremlin before EaP summit in Vilnius
Analyses | | Rafał Sadowski

Commissioner Fule wants prospective EU membership to be offered to Eastern European countries

Over the past few months, Stefan Fule, the European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, has expressed a positive approach in his statements to offering prospective EU membership to the countries located in the…
Analyses | | Szymon Ananicz, Rafał Sadowski

EU launches negotiations on free trade zones with Moldova and Georgia

On 5 December, the European Union decided to launch negotiations to create Deep And Comprehensive Free Trade Areas (DCFTA) with Moldova and Georgia. These DCFTA agreements assume the abolition of duties and quotas in mutual trade in…
Analyses | | Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga

The next stage of integration in the post-Soviet area

On 18 November in Moscow, the presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan – Dmitri Medvedev, Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Nursultan Nazarbayev – signed documents designed to lead to the creation of a Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).
Analyses | | Iwona Wiśniewska

Signing an agreement on a free-trade zone within the CIS

This document is intended to replace more than 100 bilateral agreements which currently govern free trade between these countries. The free trade area can only come into force when all the signatory states ratify it.