The speaker of the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, Sergey Naryshkin, posited that it is time to begin consultations on integration of the European Union with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), Sputnik News rports
“Our country has repeatedly talked about the possibility of future integration of two regional associations — the EEU and the European Union. Has the time come for such plans and forecasts? Is it too early? No, now is the time to not only dream, but to speak. The time has come to start consultations,” Sergey Naryshkin wrote in an op-ed published in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.