The report by the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) offers information on essential features of trade and economic interactions among EAEU member states and between the EAEU and third countries, and reviews the most significant aspects of the integration processes within EAEU and globally as of late 2018.

This report — the so-called «White Paper» — is the result of joint work of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union, and the business community. The report describes existing obstacles in the internal market of the EEU, mechanisms for their removal, and benefits of the removal to the member states.

The global economy is disintegrating into two separate projects: the West and the East. Financial globalization (the Western project) requires a uniform standard for decision-making, whereas industrial globalization (the Eastern project) requires the joining together of diverse interests on the basis of agreements.

On the threshold of the XI Eurasian Economic Forum in Verona, the banking group Intesa Sanpaolo prepared a report describing the current internal and external links in trade, investment, and geopolitics of the EAEU and giving a detailed analysis of the trade relations between Italy and the EAEU in the current global context.