For much of 2024, President Ilham Aliyev has been airing grievances about the European Union’s supposedly hypocritical treatment of Azerbaijan and the rest of the Global South. Now, state-controlled media outlets in Azerbaijan have taken to warning about the EU’s efforts to tighten relations with Baku’s arch-rival, Armenia. Since the July 23 announcement that the EU will launch negotiations to grant Armenians visa-free travel privileges, prominent Azerbaijani media outlets have published a stream of commentaries contending that embarking on the road to EU accession for Armenia will end in disa…
