{"id":33240,"date":"2012-02-10T10:53:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T10:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2012\/02\/10\/234790\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T12:55:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:55:20","slug":"hard-to-be-optimistic-about-eu-prospects-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2012\/02\/10\/33240\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard to be optimistic about EU prospects: expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, February 10.\u00a0\/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Andrei Ryabov, a leading researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, chief editor of &#8220;World Economy and International Relations\u2019 magazine of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an expert for the Gorbachev Foundation and the Moscow Carnegie Fund, believes that it is difficult to be optimistic about the EU\u2019s prospects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to be optimistic, but so far it is impossible.\u00a0It is clear that EU will need to\u00a0build closer integration within itself and head towards what could be called as the United States of Europe in order to exit strong from the current crisis and become strong enough to compete not only with the United States, China and Japan, but also with members of ASEAN, Brazil and India,\u2019 he said during an online interview in response to a question from ARKA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Andrei Ryabov\u2019s interview was part of South Caucasus Security and NATO project which interviews leading experts and political leaders from different countries for Armenian, Azerbaijan, and Georgian media. This is the project of \u2018Region\u2019 Armenian center backed by NATO\u2019s Public Diplomacy Department.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ryabov, the Europeans do not have either the will or the leaders who can implement these ambitious goals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The second problem is that Europeans should abandon the relaxed lifestyle and part of social security benefits, otherwise it would be difficult to compete with China and ASEAN.\u00a0It seems that the Europeans are not ready for this challenge either,&#8221; he said. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to be optimistic about EU prospects: expert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[12172,13118,13119,12757],"class_list":{"0":"post-33240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy-en","7":"category-news","8":"tag-economy-en","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-ryabov","11":"tag-usa"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}