Barroso on EaP: we have a clear roadmap for next two years

PanARMENIAN.Net - President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso issued a statement following the Eastern Partnership Summit in Warsaw.

“We have just concluded our plenary meeting and I would like to join my colleagues here assessing this Summit as a very successful one,” he said. “I particularly appreciated the quality of our dialogue, the very open and transparent way each comment - but sometimes also different views - were expressed. So now we have a clear roadmap for the next two years.”

“I would like to highlight, however, that from the different interventions in the room I think we can say that probably there are differences on the methods but we all share the same goal,” Mr. Barroso said.

“This Summit, its high level of attendance - it is impressive. This summit also gave us real evidence that we have been making progress in the implementation of the Eastern Partnership for over nearly two years when we last met in Prague,” he added. “We have also proposed to increase substantially the financial allocation for the Neighborhood to €16.1 billion from €11.2 billion under the current financial envelope.”