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The European Union has issued a strong message of support for economic growth and jobs in its Eastern Partner countries, during two high-level Eastern Partnership (EaP) events held in Vienna on 6 and 7 December. “ It’s our aim to export stability, prosperity and consequently resilience in the area of the economy, society but also policy,” Commissioner for EU Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement,...

A two-day workshop in Vienna on November 28-29 has brought together participants from three regional programmes – STAREP, EU-REPARIS, and PULSAR – which support enhanced financial reporting practices in the private and public sectors in the EU-Eastern Partnership countries and the Western Balkans. STAREP is an EU4Business programme on Strengthening Auditing and Reporting in the Eastern...

The EU last week launched a youth entrepreneurship project in Azerbaijan, aiming to strengthen capacity building and to ensure greater civil society participation in the development of the entrepreneurial eco-system. The EU-funded ‘Entrepreneurship for Youth’ aims to promote dialogue among stakeholders and engage local entrepreneurs, business professionals and representatives of CSOs in capacity...

The OECD held the third Public-Private Working Group meeting of the project on ‘Supporting the implementation and monitoring of Azerbaijan's SME roadmap’ in Baku on 26 September. The project is part of the broader ‘ EU4Business: From Policies to Action ’ programme implemented by the OECD across the Eastern Partnership and funded by the EU in the framework of its EU4Business initiative. The...