Interview with Andrea Matteo Fontana - Eastern Partnership supporting ‘homegrown’ reforms

The Eastern Partnership (EaP) initiative seeks to boost the EU’s relations with its eastern neighbours. The main goal is to support reforms in Eastern European countries and promote closer political association and economic integration with the...

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Infographic: snapshot of opinion among Eastern neighbours

Should the EU have a greater role in your country, and in which sectors? Do you have a positive perception of the EU? Are you satisfied with your life, with the way democracy works in your country, do you feel things are going in the right direction?...

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Information pack - The Eastern Partnership: a path to stability and prosperity

The Eastern Partnership (EaP) completes the EU’s foreign policy towards Eastern Europe and Southern Caucasus countries as a specific Eastern dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). Launched in May 2009 at the Prague Summit, the Ea...

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8 March - International Women's Day

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Eastern Partnership: Teaming up, Making a difference – ‘The Musical Contest’

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Apply now: Eastern partners invited to take part in contest for best cross-border projects
A contest for best projects of cross-border cooperation involving Eastern Partnership countries is organised jointly by the Municipality of Lublin, Poland, and the Eastern Europe Initiatives Congress, a...

EaP border guards trained in modern interrogation practices during border checks
A total of 34 border guards and police officers from five Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) have been trained to use effective profiling techniques in border checks...

EU meets Eastern Partnership foreign ministers ahead of November summit
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Neighbourhood Commissioner Štefan Füle met Eastern Partnership foreign ministers in Krakow on Friday to discuss progress towards key milestones in what...

Lithuania-Belarus: two CBC projects bring together border cities
Two EU-funded Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) projects are bringing together the border cities of Druskininkai in Lithuania and Grodno in Belarus, with joint cultural activities, and a common effort to...

Lithuania-Belarus: joining up to help children with mental disability
Two major Lithuanian and Belarusian organisations taking care of people with mental disability have joined forces to make the lives of mentally disabled children from Vilnius and Minsk more interesting, and to...

Latvia-Lithuania-Belarus: promoting tourism across the Dvina River
An EU-funded Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) project is working to position and promote three regions from Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus as one tourism destination joined by the Dvina River. The...

Ashton regrets death sentence in Belarus - only country in Europe applying capital punishment
EU High Representative Catherine Ashton has voiced regret over the death sentence recently handed down to an individual by the Mahilyow Regional Court in Belarus. In a statement issued by her spokesperson...

INOGATE conference promotes high quality energy statistics
The impact of energy statistics in policy making was the focus of an international conference on the Strategic Role of Energy Statistics in National and International Policies, held on 23-24 April in...