Togrul Jouvarli, Azerbaijan
expert

European Integration: A Remote but Realistic Prospect

Membership in the European Parliament and the OCSE, participation in NATO initiatives, and joining the program “Expansion of Europe – New Neighborhood” support the feeling in Azerbaijani society that full integration into European structures is a remote but realistic prospect. This feeling is also reinforced by the fact that Azerbaijan has signed most of the European Conventions, thus agreeing to play according to the European rules of the game ...

A.H.Alexandryan, Armenia
observer of Magazine “Les Nouvelles d'Armenie”

On the Road to European Integration

European integration has been set as one of the foreign policy priorities of Armenia. The country has been a member of the Council of Europe (CE) since January 2001, and was included in June 2004 in the European Union's (EU) “Expanded Europe, New Neighborhood” program, together with its immediate neighbors Georgia and Azerbaijan ...

Ivlian Haindrava, Georgia
Center for Development and Cooperation - Center for Pluralism (CDC-CfP), expert

There Is No Way Back

“Carthaginem esse delendam” (Carthage should be destroyed) – these are the words that concluded every single speech of Cato the Elder in the Roman Senate. “Georgia should join NATO!” were the words repeated by one of the leaders of the National Liberation Movement of Georgia, Irakli Tserteli, throughout the late 1980's and 1990's ...