Commission adopts multi-annual planning of
financial assistance to the Western Balkans and Turkey
The Commission has completed today the strategic
planning of EU financial support for 2008-2010 to the candidate countries and
potential candidates: Croatia, Turkey, the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and
Kosovo[1].
This financial assistance aims to enhance political and economic reform and
development to realise their European perspective. For 2008-2010, the overall
indicative amount of EU financial assistance under the Instrument for
Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) is €4.471 billion.