On European Experience in Eurasian Integration

Abstract

European experience of integration is important not only as a set of “best practices,” but also as a way to take into account negative experience of European integration. It is necessary to achieve the most thorough, ideologically neutral study of the unique European experience. The key point is the transition from economic integration to political integration. It is this point that is extremely important for the Eurasian Economic Union. Attempts of forced transition from economic integration to political integration have created problems for the European Union, and their complexity has been underestimated. Effective integration into the EAEU is possible and effective within the economic field, but the political space of integration today can rather be compared to the minefield, good experience of movement on which is accumulated in Brussels.

Keywords

• integration
• european union
• eurasian economic union
• political constraints
• adaptation problems
• foreign policy coordination