LONDON. - LSE. - Armenia is one of the four members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), which was formally established at the beginning of 2015. Laure DelcourandKataryna Wolczuk write that pressure from Russia following Armenia’s growing engagement with the EU left the country with little choice but to sign up to the Eurasian Economic Union. However they argue that Armenia’s continued interest in pursuing cooperation with the EU will represent an important test-case for the co-existence between the EU and the EEU in the post-Soviet space.
The EU’s Eastern neighbourhood has been fractured: some countries (Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) are seeking economic integration with the EU whereas Armenia and Belarus are pursuing deep economic integration with the Eurasian bloc. However, there are important nuances in these countries’ motives and interests in the respective integration blocs. Armenia is an instructive example.
