Dionis Cenușă co-authors a study published by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Automatically translated summary. The full article is available in Romanian.
The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) has recently published the study “Russia’s Punitive Trade Policy Measures towards Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia”. One of its co-authors is Dionis Cenușă, associate expert at the Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup”.
According to the English summary, Russia’s main instrument has been allegations of non-conformity with Russian technical standards. The correlation of these allegations with shifts in Russia’s geopolitical posture suggests that technical agencies follow political guidelines dressed up as scientific evidence. The measures push the three states to diversify their trade towards the EU and other world markets; Georgia has already taken significant steps, as Russian sanctions against it date back to 2006.
In Ukraine’s case, Russia’s threat to cancel CIS free trade preferences affected trilateral EU-Ukraine-Russia talks. On 12 September a postponement until the end of 2015 of the ‘provisional’ implementation of much of the AA/DCFTA was proposed. On 16 September the Rada and the European Parliament ratified the agreement, but the next day Putin sent Poroshenko a letter abusively interpreting the 12 September understanding.
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