Forecast: Agreement with the EU - will foster real political reforms,  improve business environment, Armenia`s interaction with Europe

ArmInfo.The agreement with the EU will have a positive effect on real political reforms, improving the business environment and Armenia's interaction with  Brussels. Director of the Caucasus Institute Alexander Iskandaryan expressed an opinion of ArmInfo.

On November 24, Armenia signed the Agreement on Comprehensive and  Enhanced Partnership with the EU on the margins of the Eastern  Partnership Summit in Brussels. Signatures under the agreement in the  presence of the president RA President Serzh Sargsyan and Chairman of  the European Council Donald Tusk were appointed by the RA Foreign  Minister Edward Nalbandian and the head of European diplomacy  Federica Mogherini.

"I think that the European Union will support certain directions of  the reforms carried out by the Armenian government, not only by an  expert technical assessment, but also by direct financial  injections." Of course, there is no need to change all internal  Armenian realities at one stroke, because for an elementary sense of  the effect of reforms, in the direction of harmonization of the  Armenian legislation with the European one, "the political scientist  said.

In general, Iskandaryan assesses the agreement as a well-developed  framework agreement with obligations and regulatory framework,  presupposing actions on both sides.

The agreement on a comprehensive and expanded partnership has already  become public. The accent in the extensive 357-page document is put  on the affirmation of justice, freedom, security in Armenia;  reforming the Constitution and the judiciary; observance of human  rights and fundamental freedoms, etc. All this is provided that the  European Union participates in financing various projects in Armenia.  The agreement will come into force after ratification by the  parliaments of Armenia and 28 EU member states.