The EU should move faster on free trade agreements and negotiations for visa-free travel with Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova, which are ‘inexpensive’ policies that can be pursued in times of austerity as funding priorities shift to the southern neighbourhood, Georgi Baramidze, Georgia’s minister responsible for EU and Nato affairs said.

Following his meeting on 28 April with Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Dimitris Droutsas, Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Ivica Dacic thanked Athens on its support to the European course of Serbia and its accession to the EU as soon as possible.

EU foreign ministers are expected to endorse strategies for Bosnia and Herzegovina at a meeting in Brussels on Monday (21 March). The strategies are supposed to make more coherent use of existing funded programmes, but no major new money will be made available. The EU strategy for the region will …