Dialogue Key Aspect For EU-EEU Cooperation - World Economic Forum

According to World Economic Forum’s head of Global Knowledge Networks, Maintaining of an active dialogue between the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) is necessary for a successful cooperation between the two blocs.

ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov – Maintaining of an active dialogue between the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) is necessary for a successful cooperation between the two blocs, the World Economic Forum’s head of Global Knowledge Networks told Sputnik on Thursday.

The EEU comprises Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia.

"It was very refreshing and insightful to see the various challenges but also opportunities, so continuing the dialogue is clearly the most important aspect," Martina Larkin said commenting on the results of a business roundtable devoted to the relations between the two unions at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Larkin, who was the discussion’s moderator, added that the EEU is a very young entity so “the most important part is that all the various actors get together and have this continued dialogue.”

The integration seeks to achieve greater economic integration, including the free flow of goods, services, capital and labor, across its member states.

A year before establishment of the EEU, in January 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow proposed Brussels to create a free trade area between the European Union and the EEU.