Brussels, 21/12/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission announced on Tuesday 20 December that it had finalised a series of aid programmes, worth almost €1 billion, to support reforms in countries wishing to join the EU. The funding comes from the 2011 Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) budget, under the transition assistance and institution building and cross-border cooperation components.
“All these programmes have been designed to achieve concrete results in terms of...