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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9822

21 January 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/eastern partnership
MEPs criticise lack of ambition in Commission proposal - Eneko Landaburu defends it

Brussels, 20/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament has serious doubts about the effectiveness and real added value of the “Eastern partnership”. The latter is aimed at enhancing the Eastern dimension in the Union's European neighbourhood policy but MEPs have doubts about it being able to strengthen relations with the six neighbours affected by this initiative: Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus. This is the impression created following the meeting...

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