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    Customs Union of the EurAsEC: Challenge to Ukraine Ignored by the European Union
    Customs Union of the EurAsEC: Challenge to Ukraine Ignored by the European Union
    Customs Union of the EurAsEC: Challenge to Ukraine Ignored by the European Union
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    Customs Union of the EurAsEC: Challenge to Ukraine Ignored by the European Union

    By Oleksii Izhak

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    The Nature of the Ukrainian Choice: Acquis without Institutions
    Customs Union: a Myth that is Turning into Reality
    The Customs Union at Close Range
    Customs Union and Ukraine
    Free Trade vs. Customs Union
    Conclusions
    Literature
    Footnotes

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOleksii Izhak
    Release dateSep 20, 2012
    ISBN9781301048823
    Customs Union of the EurAsEC: Challenge to Ukraine Ignored by the European Union

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      Customs Union of the EurAsEC - Oleksii Izhak

      Customs Union of the EurAsEC: Challenge to Ukraine Ignored by the European Union

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      Oleksii Izhak

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      Copyright 2010 Oleksii Izhak

      Original text was written in Ukrainian and translated into English by Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association for collection Ukraine and the Visegrad Four: Towards a Mutually Beneficial Relationship, Veronika Pulisova Tomas Strazay (eds.), Bratislava, December 2010.

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      Table of Contents

      The Nature of the Ukrainian Choice: Acquis without Institutions

      Customs Union: a Myth that is Turning into Reality

      The Customs Union at Close Range

      Customs Union and Ukraine

      Free Trade vs. Customs Union

      Conclusions

      Literature

      Footnotes

      About the Author

      The Nature of the Ukrainian Choice: Acquis without Institutions

      In the coming years and, perhaps in the long-term perspective, the international institutional questions of defining the development strategy of Ukraine will be minor. The membership of Ukraine in the European Union and NATO is not on the agenda because of internal reasons that determine the development of these organizations. Membership of Ukraine in the (funded by Russia) Customs Union (CU) and Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is also seemingly impossible. The reasons here are quite different: these organizations would welcome Ukraine as their member, but Ukraine itself has powerful arguments to avoid membership¹.

      With regard to this situation Ukraine will be stuck for a long time between two geopolitical organizations – the EU and NATO in the West, and CU and CSTO in the East – without joining any of these organizations formally. At the same time this does not exclude the question of the strategic choice of Ukraine and the vector of its internal reforms becoming part of the agenda. The mechanism of this choice is becoming different, but not its nature. When the institutional component is missing the key question is the implementation of European principles, standards and norms, in other words European acquis in a broader sense of this term, including acquis communautaire of the EU, Schengen acquis, and NATO acquis.

      There is some risk as the

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