On 6 May 2015, Central European University in Budapest played host to the conference “Eastern Partnership and its Prospects: What can the EU offer to the Eastern neighbors?” The event was organized by the CEU Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS), the Embassy of Latvia in Hungary, and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Budapest.
The BISS analyst was invited as a panelist to share his insights as part of the Panel “Eurasian Union — A rival on the rise?” along with James Nixey, Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House, the UK, Lolita Čigāne, Chairperson of the European Affairs Committee of the Saeima, the Latvian Parliament, Richard GIRAGOSIAN, Founding Director of the Regional Studies Center (RSC), Yerevan, Armenia. The panel was moderated by Miklós Haraszti, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Belarus.
Andrei Yeliseyeu’s speech centered on the decision-making procedure in the Eurasian Economic Union, economic benefits and costs, and challenges that Belarus is facing now that it is an EEU member.
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