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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9866

21 March 2009
EUROPEAN COUNCIL / (eu) eu/eastern partnership
European Council approves new €600 million policy towards eastern neighbours

Brussels, 20/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - As expected, on Friday 20 March, EU heads of state and government approved the Eastern Partnership, which seeks to strengthen the eastern dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) towards six neighbouring countries: Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus. The EU also gave the go-ahead for a summit of the “27+6” leaders to be held in Prague or Brussels (the Presidency says that no decision has yet been taken on where...

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