The European Union and Kazakhstan last week formally concluded talks on an expanded partnership and co-operation agreement, a revision intended to develop a relationship that has in the past seven years seen the EU become Kazakhstan’s leading trading partner. The agreement comes at a time when the crisis in Ukraine and the pending withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan have raised Kazakhstan’s geopolitical importance.
After meeting Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbaev in Brussels on Thursday (9 October), José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, praised the agreement as a demonstration that “international relations are not a zero-sum game”, a clear …read more
Source: European Voice
