Zhoghovurd daily writes:
During his visit to Armenia on EU Commissioner for Enlargement Martha, the EU promised that the EU is ready to support our country in transport, digitalization, energy, trade and infrastructure projects. He stressed that there is a historic opportunity to establish peace in the South Caucasus and to make Armenia a regional connection between the idea of "intersection of peace".
The EU Commissioner for Enlargement has announced that the EU is funded by the second stage of the research and growth program for Armenia. "It is about more than 200 million euros that will promote connection, resilience and business development. This testifies to the agenda of clear reforms in Armenia. This also testifies to your clear commitment to implement reforms in important areas, "Kos stated.
However, according to aware sources of "Zhoghovurd" daily, real integration in EU-Armenia relations is still far from being complete. According to our information, a number of obstacles continue to block the process, starting with legislative inconsistencies to the incompleteness of legal acts to EU standards.
Even the process of the laws on the Sepa Agreement is barely 60%. There are also problems with administration and citizenship settings, which prevents deep and systemic integration.
That is why Nikol Pashinyan's government is adopted by a sectoral integration approach, that is, the cooperation with the EU is being built on specific areas: energy, digitalization, trade and other priority branches. This, according to Zhoghovurd daily sources, is considered a more realistic and working model in the current conditions.
The overall picture clearly, the high statements made by the EU are still not fully turning into institutional integration. While Europe speaks of peace, connection and investment, the current political realities in Armenia are forced to move instead of large-scale transformations, phased, thematic and intentionally cautiously. "
Details in today's issue of "Zhoghovurd" daily.
