The negotiation process is being taken to a platform where Baku and Ankara are stronger. "Luys" Foundation

Only in 2023, Azerbaijan received 18.6 billion euros (about 20 billion dollars) for oil and gas supplied to the EU, which is a huge indicator from a purely financial point of view. This is stated in the analysis published by "Luys" Foundation.

For example, it is more than 5 times higher than in 2024. Azerbaijan's military budget is around 3.8 billion dollars, or 14 times more than in 2024. About 1.4 billion dollars from the RA military budget. This index alone is enough to understand the EU's role in the armament and aggressive policy of Azerbaijan.

At the same time, the EU's general dependence on Turkey and Azerbaijan for the purchase and transit of energy carriers puts the latter in significant dependence on Ankara and Baku, which certainly cannot be ignored by EU politicians when making decisions.

The authorities of Armenia, trying to make Brussels the main or only arbiter in the negotiations with Azerbaijan and Turkey, are consciously taking the negotiation process to a platform where the instruments of influence of Baku and Ankara are much richer than those of Yerevan.

In essence, the only "half-factor" of the influence of the current authorities of RA on the positions of the EU is anti-Russian, which is actively played by the latter.

In this article, we presented only the energy component of the Turkish-Azerbaijani toolkit of influence on EU policy, but it is much richer, starting from the economic and ending with the geopolitical.

Full analysis here