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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9865
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/eastern partnership

Member states will give Eastern Partnership their political blessing on Friday, but issue of budget remains problematic

Brussels, 19/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - The European Council will, on Friday 20 March, give the political go-ahead for the Eastern Partnership. The Partnership could, then, be launched officially at the start of May at a special summit with the heads of the six countries involved: Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and possibly Belarus. The issue of how this new policy is to be funded will not be settled by heads of state and government, so the Council will have to come up with an...

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