Forecast: Membership of Albania, Serbia and Macedonia in the EU to  the growth of the European market will not lead

ArmInfo. Membership of Albania, Serbia and Macedonia in the EU to strengthen and increase the European market will not. This opinion was voiced by the leading  research associate of the Institute of World Economy and  International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor  Nadein-Rayevsky.

In an interview with Wiener Zeitung, the EU Commissioner for  Enlargement and the European Neighborhood Policy Johannes Khan noted  the Balkans as a promising political and economic region for the EU  enlargement. According to his estimates, the EU is ready for such an  extension.

"Examples of EU enlargement by including countries with a fairly  inefficient economy are enough, and a new enlargement at the expense  of the above-mentioned countries of the Balkan Peninsula, whose  economy is at best in development, will be another example of the  inconsistency of the European integration policy.  any other  direction, for example, the countries of the "Eastern Partnership" is  fraught with new problems, especially in the light of the latest  trends of the Old World.

In the opinion of Nadein-Rayevsky, the structure of the European  Union was initially calculated on the accession of new members for  the purpose of the growth of the EU internal market. In this light,  the lack of new countries in the EU leads the eurozone to stagnation.  However, the accession to the EU of new countries that have at best  potential markets, according to his estimates, to solve the  stagnation problem is not possible.

The Eastern Partnership is a project of the European Union with the  main goal of developing EU integration ties with Ukraine, Moldova,  Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Belarus. The draft provides for the  conclusion of bilateral agreements between the EU and partner  countries on the association, which should serve as an important step  towards their further integration into the European socio-economic  and political space. Directly, the project does not envisage EU  membership.

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 the president. 

RA President Serzh Sargsyan and Chairman of the European Council  Donald Tusk were appointed by the RA Foreign Minister Edward  Nalbandian and the head of European diplomacy Federica Mogerini.