After Brussels: Building Resilience Into EU-Kazakhstan Partnership

By Eldaniz Gusseinov in Opinions on 26 June 2026

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev returned from Brussels on 23 June with a substantial package: an aviation agreement, concluded visa and readmission negotiations, fresh road and mineral commitments, and commercial agreements and memoranda that Astana put at more than $12 billion. The single largest item was an Air Astana aircraft order valued …

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