Relacje europejskich państw b. ZSRR z Unią Europejską – stan i perspektywy
Relations between the European countries of the former USSR and the European Union - current state and perspectives

Summary/Abstract: The main goal of the article was to perform an analysis of relations between the European countriesof the former USSR and the European Union, and – in accordance with the outcomes of this analysis – to formulate an opinion about the future developments of these relations.The deliberations conducted in the article are focused on identifying the main factors, both legal(contractual relations and their implications) and empirical (state of economic relations, measured withvalues of selected indicators), specific to relations between each analyzed country of former USSR andthe EU.In the article, two main hypotheses have been formulated:• Relations between each analyzed ex-USSR country and the EU are specific.• Russia is a dominant entity on the former USSR territory, still having relevant, if not crucial influenceon relations between all the other ex-USSR countries and the EU.The main scientific methods, used in the article include the analysis of legal agreements and values ofempirical indicators, as well as a synthesis of the results and conclusions. These methods were antecededby research of scientific literature and usage of statistical techniques.

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