ARMENIA - Potential EU Membership

Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan gave the red-carpet treatment, with a military band, to EU Council chairman António Costa and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen for a first-ever EU-Armenia summit in Yerevan.

They also signed a six-page declaration celebrating the “historic milestone” in relations and envisaging EU investment in solar energy, transport links, and the AI and digital sectors in Armenia.

Pashinyan said the EU investment blueprint and legal and industrial alignment would help his country get closer to a future membership in the bloc.

“If the European Union [one day] accepts us, we will be happy and enthusiastic about it,” he said.

In the Western Balkans, Albania and Montenegro are well advanced in EU talks and hoping to join in 2028 to 2029, even though Bosnia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Serbia are being held back by internal or bilateral disputes.

Accession talks are de facto frozen with Turkey and Georgia due to illiberal rule.

But Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has also voiced interest in overcoming disputes with Cyprus to restart the accession process.

Meanwhile, the geopolitical volatility has stirred interest in closer EU economic and security ties also in Canada, Norway, Switzerland, and the UK.

And in the rosiest enlargement scenario, the EU could see Albania, Iceland, and Montenegro join in 2028, with Ukraine not far behind in 2029.

-eurobserver.com, 5 May 2026

Commentary: According to Wikipedia, as of 2025, Armenia’s main export partners are the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) at 24.9%, slightly ahead of Russia at 23.4%.

The nation has been weakened from the 2020 war with Azerbaijan. A Google search finds: “Armenia and Azerbaijan recently finalized the text of a historic peace agreement to resolve nearly four decades of conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Bilateral diplomatic efforts are ongoing to finalize border demarcation and transit routes.”

Once again, we see nations standing in line, applications in hand, to be members of the European Union.

What started in 1951 (Treaty of Paris) as the European Coal and Steel Community with Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany, was later solidified in 1957’s “Treaty of Rome.” Today, it’s officially a political-economic union of 27 member states, established in 1993 by the Maastricht Treaty.

In summary, expansion continues, and it’s most likely that Europe will claim the number one spot to prepare for the fulfillment of Daniel 11:36: “And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.”

(See Discovering Daniel, Item #2423, $17.99.)