page_title: Continental union
section_title: Eurasian Economic Union
hierarchical_section_title: Continental union / Similar political entities / Eurasian Economic Union
context_page_description: A continental union is a regional organization which facilitates pan-continental integration. Continental unions vary from collaborative intergovernmental organizations, to supranational politico-economic unions. Continental unions are a relatively new type of political entity in the history of human government. Throughout most of human history, political organization has been at the local level and in more recent centuries, the sub-regional /sub-continental level; however, starting with the advent of better transportation, weapons and communication there was for the first time the ability for a union of member states to organize at the continental level. After the devastation of the First and Second World Wars in the middle of the twentieth century, Europe began to slowly integrate with the founding of the "European Community", which became a political union covering much of the European continent.
context_section_description: The Eurasian Economic Union was founded in January, 2015, consisting of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and observer member Moldova, all of them being previous members of the Soviet Union. The Eurasian Union is a Transcontinental Union as members include states from both Europe and Asia.
caption:   Member States of the Eurasian Economic Union  Observer states  Other candidate states