{"id":263594,"date":"2015-03-20T15:40:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T11:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=263594"},"modified":"2015-03-20T15:40:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T11:40:18","slug":"eeu-or-eu-the-opinions-of-armenian-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/03\/20\/eeu-or-eu-the-opinions-of-armenian-youth.html","title":{"rendered":"EEU or EU? The Opinions of Armenian Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Around 60% of the citizens of Armenia consider the political path chosen by the Armenian authorities wrong, testify the results of the survey conducted by Peace Dialogue NGO titled &ldquo;Balancing Security and Freedom&rdquo;, which asked &ldquo;How Armenians assess the Armenian authorities&#39; foreign policy.&rdquo;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe study was conducted from July-September 2014, between 480 individuals aged 18-25 from Yerevan, Tavush, Lori, Gegharkunik, and Syunik province. Various urban and rural communities participated in the survey; Vanadzor, Ijevan, Gavar, Goris, Achajur, Sarigyugh, Sevkar, Margahovit, Saral, Noratus, Gandzak, and Shinahayr.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOnly 4.2% answered positively to the question &ldquo;How do you evaluate Armenia&rsquo;s foreign policy developments?&rdquo; stating it was moving in the right direction. 26.5% considered the foreign policy to be &ldquo;right rather than wrong.&rdquo; 30.4% considered the political path chosen by Armenia wrong, while 28.5% believed it to be &ldquo;wrong rather than right.&rdquo;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTo the question whether Armenia should join the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) or the European Union (EU), the answers were almost split. 48.3% answered for the EEU, while 42.9% for the EU.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIf the preference to these two structures is nearly distributed in half, then the justifications for the responses are significantly different. For those who chose the EU, 43.2% chose the most decisive factor being the safeguards for human rights, while only 9.1% of those who answered EEU justified their choice with the human rights&#39; aspect. 27.6% of those answering positively toward the EEU believed that Armenia would have more long-term opportunities, 25% stated security as an important factor, while 24.1% justified it with Armenia&rsquo;s geo-political position.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;A significant portion of the grounds for joining the EEU are the concerns of implementing economic sanctions by Russia on Armenia (for example; gas prices, deporting Armenian migrant workers). From this perspective, it is not so much about development, but rather about not aggravating the economic situation of Armenia,&rdquo; note the authors of the survey.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSurvey in its entirety <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacedialogue.am\/upload_\/3_702\/Balancing%20Security%20and%20Freedom_arm.pdf\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">&nbsp;<\/span><em>[Armenian only]<\/em><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 4.2% answered positively to the question \u201cHow do you evaluate Armenia\u2019s foreign policy developments?\u201d stating it was moving in the right direction. 26.5% considered the foreign policy to be \u201cright rather than wrong&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57048,14816,55215,15367,60453,15734],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}