Tuesday, November 28 2017 15:20

ArmInfo. Russia can not prohibit post-Soviet countries, in general, and Armenia, in  particular, to have trade and economic relations with the EU similar to their own.  It's no secret that Brussels is the main trade and economic partner of Moscow. A similar opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by the scientific director of the German-Russian forum (Berlin) Alexander Rahr.

"In my opinion, in general, Moscow is interested in cooperation  between the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union and the European  Union, since this factor contributes to the formation of partnership  relations between the two integration structures, and this  cooperation will allow us to solve many of the pressing problems in  the future," he said.

At the same time, the German political scientist believes that  Armenia's signing of the Agreement on Comprehensive and Expanded  Partnership with the EU did not become a sharp step from Russia  towards the European Union. According to him, Moscow, first of all,  is irreconcilable even to the very possibility in the long term of  achieving between Armenia and the EU allied relations in the field of  defense.

On November 24, Armenia signed the Agreement on Comprehensive and  Enhanced Partnership with the EU on the margins of the Eastern  Partnership Summit in Brussels. Signatures under the agreement in the  presence of RA President Serzh Sargsyan and the chairman of the  European Council Donald Tusk were put by the RA Foreign Minister  Edward Nalbandian and the head of European diplomacy Federic  Mogerini.  The agreement will come into force after ratification by  the parliaments of Armenia and 28 EU member states.

At the same time, Rahr does not consider the existing Armenia-EU  agreement as the start of the way of Yerevan to Europe. According to  his estimates, the EU is already losing its former attractiveness not  only in Armenia, but also in other countries of the post-Soviet  space. As an example, he highlighted the situation in Moldova, a  large part of whose population, in his view, the point of view  promoted by pro-Western forces does not share.

They realize that it is impossible to expand the EU in the short  term, according to the political scientist, and in Europe, whose  inhabitants do not want this, especially against the backdrop of  Brexit, the EU's internal problems over which the leaders of Germany  and France are beating today.