To put this all in context, let's look at a map of the European Union versus the Eurasian Customs Union as they stand right now: As you can see the big red blob that represents the ECU already has ...

The past 100 years have seen another world war and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, but much of present-day Europe is based ... right from 1914 to see 1914 map and to the left from 2014 ...