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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.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has welcomed the announced resumption of internationally-mediated talks on the Transdniester dispute.

Combating of corruption is one of the main conditions that Moldova must fulfill in order to come closer to the European Union, Polish Ambassador to Moldova Bogumil Luft said in a meeting of the Press Club of the Foreign Policy Association.

The new European Neighborhood Policy presented officially by the European Commission contains new emphases as regards democracy. The European Union says stress will be laid on the democratic dimension as it will be hard to create a zone of stability, security and prosperity in the neighboring countries without stable democracy. But this new approach is in fact not new. It is a mainly a déjà vu and the European officials should be told this openly. The conclusions were formulated in a Press Club meeting of the Foreign Policy Association (APE).

U.S. Senator John McCain and Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat meet in Chisinau.

Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi says the European Union no longer suspects Bucharest of promoting a "hidden agenda" in regard to Moldova, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports.