Implementation of the Eastern Partnership: Report to the meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers
Implementation of the Eastern Partnership: Report to the meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers,
13 December 2010
“The EU has been responding to the strong request of partners for enhanced mobility through visa facilitation and readmission agreements and through “gradual steps toward full visa liberalization as a long-term goal for individual partner countries on a case-by-case basis provided that conditions for well-managed and secure mobility are in place”, as outlined in the Joint Declaration of the Prague Eastern Partnership Summit of May 2009. There has been good progress on this agenda: The EU Georgia visa facilitation agreement was signed in June 2010 and the EU-Georgia readmission agreement in November. It is expected that after signature, the European Parliament will give its consent to these two agreements which would allow their conclusion by the Council and their simultaneous entry into force.”
