Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in seven countries in South-eastern Europe – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Romania and Serbia – will get easier access to risk capital. This is thanks to the InnovFin SME guarantee, a new EU-backed loan facility under the Horizon 2020 programme. A deal signed on 28 January 2016 by European Investment Fund (EIF) with the German ProCredit group will allow its banks to enter into new loan agreements with SMEs as well as Small Mid-caps for a total of €250 million over the next two years.

The European Commission has designed and delivered drafts of parts of Actions envisaged to be implemented under Multi-Country IPA programme in 20...

Our duty is to ensure that present and future generations are conscious of the roots of the Holocaust. Understanding evil, and how it so easily made its way into our own societies, is the first step to prevent evil from prevailing again.

The “Concept of mechanism of cooperation of parliaments in BiH in activities related to the EU integration process” that was signed in Saraje...

With a budget of over €2 billion in its initial year, Erasmus+ has already offered more than one million people the opportunity to take part in 18.000 funded projects. More flexible opportunities for collaboration across sectors are also helping Europe's education, training, youth and sport systems to try out innovative practices and contribute to reform and modernisation.

On 25 January 2016 Europol launched the European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC) at the informal meeting of the justice and home affairs minister...

The EU funded project “Strengthening the public procurement system in Bosnia and Herzegovina“, that contributed to the improvement of the public procurement legal framework and enhanced its efficiency and transparency saw its final conference on 25 January 2016 in Sarajevo. The project also assisted the implementation of the new Law on Public Procurement that was adopted in late April 2014.

Turkey and the EU believe that there is a need to exert huge effort to address the refugee crisis and irregular migration. They discussed the imp...

The project contributed to the classification of jobs in the public administration, which will help authorities in the future to employ civil servants in a clear and transparent manner. In addition, the project provided a clear framework to determine the civil servants’ salaries.

The general objective of the call is to test possible procedures, mechanisms and quality criteria at European level that...