EU – EAEU could revive Eastern Partnership

• to create proper conditions for sustainable economic development of the member states in order to improve the living standards of their population;
• to seek the creation of a common market for goods, services, capital and labor within the Union;
• to ensure comprehensive modernization, cooperation and competitiveness of national economies within the global economy.

• creation of a common domestic market with the four freedoms of movement for over 184 mln people;
• promoting an increase of mutual trade between member states of the Union (e.g. mutual exports rose from 10.9% in 2015 to 14% in I-II 2018);
• promoting an increase in the share of goods with higher added value in mutual trade (e.g., the share of imports of industrial products from third countries decreased from 24.6% in 2015 to 22.8% in 2017);
• building of interstate technological production chains (for example, in 2017 cooperative supplies between the member states in the manufacturing industry increased by 30%, while imports of components from third countries increased only by 21.6%);
• acting as a driver for the implementation of the world’s most progressive economic policies, standards, rules and governance models;
• strengthening of the bargaining power of the member states in trade negotiations with third parties;
• promoting a network of free trade areas with a wide range of countries and economic blocks (Vietnam – 2015; Iran – 2018; China – 2018, non-preferential; India, Singapore, Serbia and others – planned for 2019);
• helping Armenia overcome its trade isolation and making it an attractive location for European companies due to its membership in the EAEU, enhanced partnership with the EU and the EAEU’s FTA with Iran;
• acting as a multilateral leverage institute for Belarus in trade disputes with Russia (apart from being Belarus’ key export destination);
• helping Kazakhstan overcome its geographic isolation by increasing continental connectivity and the creation of a common transport market;
• acting as Kyrgyzstan’s key export location for agro-food products and human labor;
• providing cheap labor, necessary for a sustained economic growth of the Russian economy, as well as promoting a “cordon of economic stability” around Russia’s borders.

• The EAEU has a large market for the export of EU manufactured goods and food products (over 184 mln people)
• The EAEU is a source of cheap resources (oil, gas, coal, lumber, metals, etc.) which is very important for keeping the EU economy competitive in the global market.
• The EAEU has a relatively high-qualified labor force, e.g. in the IT sector, where the EAEU implements an ambitious “Digital Agenda by 2025”.

• The three Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania): An increase of exports to the EAEU by 80% (10% in overall exports). GPD growth by 1.2% to 1.8%, i.e. 200 Euro per capita.
• Poland: An increase of exports to the EAEU by 70% (5% in overall exports). GPD growth by 0.5%, i.e. 50 Euro per capita.
• Belarus: An increase of exports to the EU by 109% (46% in overall exports). GPD growth by 5%, i.e. 290 Euro per capita. (!)
• Ukraine: An increase of overall exports by 26%. GPD growth by 5%, i.e. 90 Euro per capita.