{"id":141893,"date":"2025-03-28T09:43:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T05:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=141893"},"modified":"2025-03-28T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T07:10:12","slug":"eec-trade-board-on-why-the-same-state-cannot-simultaneously-be-eaeu-and-eu-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/141893\/","title":{"rendered":"EEC Trade Board on why the same state cannot simultaneously be EAEU and EU member"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The Eurasian Economic Commission&rsquo;s (EEC) Trade Board has clarified why a state cannot simultaneously be a member of both the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the European Union (EU).<\/p>\n<p>The EEC Trade Board addressed the topic, answering a question from an <a href=\"https:\/\/armenpress.am\/hy\/article\/1215622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armenpress<\/a> correspondent in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&ndash; From a technical and legal standpoint, what are the key differences between the Eurasian Economic Union and the European Union from a trade perspective? Why can&rsquo;t the same state simoultaneously be a member of both the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ndash; From a legal standpoint, both the EAEU and the EU are customs unions established under international trade law. Consequently, a state that has transferred its trade policy powers to one of these unions cannot engage in similar processes within the other.<\/p>\n<p>On March 26, Armenia&rsquo;s parliament adopted in the second reading a draft law initiating the process of joining the European Union. The Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk stated that Armenia must choose between the EAEU and the EU, as &ldquo;it is impossible to sit on two chairs at the same time.&rdquo; He added that the same state cannot be a member of both the EU and the EAEU at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Overchuk added that if Armenia joins the European Union, Moscow would be forced to reconsider the entire scope of economic relations with Yerevan.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eurasian Economic Commission&rsquo;s (EEC) Trade Board has clarified why a state cannot simultaneously be a member of both the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the European Union (EU). The EEC Trade Board addressed the topic, answering a question from an Armenpress correspondent in Moscow. &ndash; From a technical and legal standpoint, what are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":141856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,101,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-economy","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}