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Analyses | | Marcin Popławski

EU–Central Asia summit in Samarkand the economy comes first

The first European Union-Central Asia summit was held in Samarkand on 3–4 April, bringing together the heads of EU institutions and the presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The EU was represented…
OSW Commentary | | Zuzanna Krzyżanowska

On the trail of the grey wolf pan-Turkism in Turkeys foreign policy

Ankara’s active policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia is linked among other things with pan-Turkism, an idea which advocates the integration of the Turkic nations. It is continuously present in the political culture of the Turkish state…
OSW Commentary | | Marcin Popławski

Crisis as an opportunity A new stage in EU-Central Asia relations

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed the European Union’s approach to Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan). Over the last two years, it has become more important for the EU to maintain this…
Analyses | | Lidia Gibadło, Marcin Popławski

The Central Asian Five in Berlin time for a strategic partnership

The first leaders’ summit in the Central Asia-Federal Republic of Germany (C5+RFN) format took place in Berlin on 29 September. The five leaders of the region met with Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, both as a…
Analyses | | Michał Bogusz, Marcin Popławski

The China–Central Asia Summit Beijing is still forced to cooperate with Moscow

On 17–19 May, the city of Xi’an in China hosted the second summit of the leaders of five Central Asian countries, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) (the first of…
OSW Commentary | | Jan Strzelecki

The Eurasian Economic Union a time of crisis

The economic crisis in Russia is affecting the uncompetitive post-Soviet economies which are dependent on Moscow.
OSW Commentary | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz, Ewa Fischer

The Eurasian Economic Union – more political less economic

While the Kremlin presents the EEU as the Eurasian equivalent of the European Union, the project is in reality an imitation of integration.
Analyses | | Krzysztof Strachota

The summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

The twelfth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) took place on 6-7 June in Beijing. The summit was attended by the presidents of the organisation’s member states: China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and…
Analyses | | Iwona Wiśniewska

Signing an agreement on a free-trade zone within the CIS

This document is intended to replace more than 100 bilateral agreements which currently govern free trade between these countries. The free trade area can only come into force when all the signatory states ratify it.