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The visit to Chisinau shows the European Unions firm commitment to strengthen cooperation with Moldova, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton said in a meeting with President Nicolae Timofti, IPN has learned from the presidential press service.

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the Commission Catherine Ashton travels to Moldova tomorrow.

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Country's politicians consider the geopolitical and economic benefits of closer ties with the European project or Moscow

(Reuters) - It all started when Moldova's top judiciary and businessmen gathered in a snow-laden forest called Tsar's Wood to mark the year's end by stalking wild boar. In the course of the hunt, a shot rang out and a man fell fatally wounded.

The Steering Committee of the EaP Civil Society Forum is inviting all interested parties to submit expressions of interest to participate in the fifth meeting of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum. The submission of expressions of interest is a necessary step in the selection process to participate in the EaP CSF meeting in Chisinau in 2013.

The aim is to produce six policy analyses that would provide a fair overview and useful policy recommendations on crucial issues of European integration reform agenda, foreign policy and Transnistrian settlement

New EU initiative to fight organised crime and human trafficking at EU borders

A Joint Border Control Operation (JBCO) codenamed PODOLIA recently carried out on the Ukrainian-Moldovan border by the EU Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM) has been deemed a success. The results of the operation (conducted at key locations last autumn) were assessed at EUBAM headquarters in Odessa on 22 January by representatives from Interpol, Europol, and EUBAMs partner services in Moldova and Ukraine, an EUBAM press release said.

The Foreign Policy Association of Moldova (Asociația pentru Politică externă) in partnership with the German-Moldovan Forum (Deutsch-Moldauisches Forum e.V.) and the Institute for Eastern Studies in Warsaw (Fundacja Instytut Studiów Wschodnich) organized in Berlin, in the period October 22-23, 2012 the second edition of the EU și Republic of Moldova Forum. Co-organizers of the event were the German și Moldovan Forum in Berlin and the German și Moldovan Forum in Chisinau.

€94 million bilateral support has been allocated by the European Commission for the Republic of Moldova as part of the Annual Action Programme 2012.

It offers new opportunities to finance more projects within the Youth in Action Programme involving organisations and participants from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.

Ambassador Erwan Fouéré (l), the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian settlement process, alongside James C. O'Shea of the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the OSCE, during official 5+2 talks, Vienna, 12 July 2012. (OSCE/Sonya Yee) .VIENNA, 13 July 2012 și Ambassador Erwan Fouéré, the Special Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian settlement process, welcomed the constructive dialogue at official 5+2 talks which concluded in Vienna today and urged participants to redouble efforts to achieve concrete progress.

European People's Party (EPP) leaders have published a declaration on how to strengthen the Eastern Partnership (EaP) process following an Eastern Partnership Summit in Batumi, Georgia, on 10 July.

The role of social partners, quality of training and effective funding mechanisms emerged as the key issues when the European Training Foundation (ETF), an EU agency, and its partners met in Tallinn, Estonia, to discuss and review the findings of the regional project on continuing vocational training (CVT) in Eastern Europe. The three-year project, launched in 2011, aims to strengthen the role of CVT in the context of socioeconomic challenges faced by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.

The Steering Committee of the EaP Civil Society Forum is now inviting all interested parties to submit expressions of interest to participate in the fourth meeting of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum. The submission of expressions of interest is a necessary step in the selection process to participate in the EaP CSF meeting in Sweden in 2012.