EU COMMISSIONER FOR ENLARGEMENT AND NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY COMES OUT FOR VISA REGIME FACILITATION AGREEMENTS FOR EU NEIGHBORHOOD
ArmInfo
2010-05-13 11:17:00
ArmInfo. "Lisbon Treaty, which foresees the creation of the EU’s
diplomatic service, opens new possibilities for more integrated
efforts. He also stressed that the Union needs to do more in the area
of people-to-people contacts. "We have to improve. Visa facilitation
agreements are necessary. This can be done and must be done," he said.
For now, visa facilitation agreements are in place with Ukraine
and Moldova," Stefan Fule, the commissioner for enlargement and
neighbourhood policy said in a press conference on occasion of the
ENP’s five-year anniversary.
Since the launch of the ENP, in 2004, the EU has strengthened its
contractual and trade relations as well as enhanced people-to-people
contacts with the twelve most advanced partners, namely Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Moldova,
the occupied Palestinian territory, Tunisia and Ukraine, says the ENP’s
five-year anniversary report published by the EU executive on 12 May.