Policy Sections
Mini Sections
The EU acted boldly by signing the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Serbia ahead of the early parliamentary elections on 11 May, Goran Svilanovic, the former minister of foreign affairs of Serbia and Montenegro, told EurActiv in an interview. He also welcomed the EU's recent visa facilitation initiative.
Speaking to EurActiv on the day the new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev took office, Vladimir Chizhov, the Russian ambassador to the EU, put the full blame on Georgia for the military build-up in the South Caucasus and portrayed his country as a whistleblower for the region.
Some of the EU's strongest and wealthiest 'old' member states continue to restrict access to their labour markets by workers from Eastern Europe. (read more)
The EU's fundamental objective for the Western Balkans region (South East Europe) is to create a situation where military conflict is unthinkable – expanding to the region the area of peace, stability, prosperity and freedom established over the last 50 years by gradual European integration. (read more)
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) aims to forge closer ties with countries to the South and East of the EU without offering them a membership perspective. (read more)