https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/2018/06/29/case-leaving-eu-joining-eurasian-economic-union/ Tue, 18 Sep 2018 11:09:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/2018/06/29/case-leaving-eu-joining-eurasian-economic-union/#comment-14879 Tue, 03 Jul 2018 22:29:07 +0000 https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/?p=1764#comment-14879 And as mentioned in the article, Poland has just defied Brussels too. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/world/europe/poland-supreme-court-protest.html
It’s going to be a long hard struggle to keep these countries together. Brussels forget that Warsaw told Moscow where to go back in the 1980’s when it was far more dangerous and they are not afraid of corporate suits like Juncker and Tusk. The Poles aren’t stupid and don’t want the EU to become a Federation.

]]> https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/2018/06/29/case-leaving-eu-joining-eurasian-economic-union/#comment-14713 Sat, 30 Jun 2018 18:48:36 +0000 https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/?p=1764#comment-14713 Interesting article here about Slovakia, an EU member, getting closer to Moscow, bearing out what I’ve surmised above: https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/24936/why-is-slovakia-a-proud-eu-and-nato-member-drifting-toward-russia

]]> https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/2018/06/29/case-leaving-eu-joining-eurasian-economic-union/#comment-14647 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:26:19 +0000 https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/?p=1764#comment-14647 And to further illustrate the increasingly precarious nature of the EU, Trump has apparently been telling French President Macron to “Leave the EU in order to get a better bilateral deal with the US” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/29/quit-eu-bilateral-trade-deal-trump-told-macron-us-france-terms I also commented on the upcoming Trump-Putin summit and the United States new preference for bilateral rather than multilateral deals here: https://www.russia-briefing.com/news/new-world-order-trade-implications-putin-trump-meet-helsinki.html

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