Poland, Gdansk, 26 May / Trend special correspondent S.Agayeva/
The European Union (EU) has ambitious plans for the Eastern Partnership (EP), Polish Foreign Ministry's authorized representative on EP Andrzej Tseshkovsky told journalists from six EP member-countries in Warsaw on May 26. "Poland is satisfied with progress in the political process for the EP, but it is always possible to accelerate the process," he said.
The project prepared on paper should be implemented, he said.
One of the priority issues within the EP, Tseshkovsky called the assistance to promote medium businesses. "The EU should allocate 30 million euros for this program, while European banks have already expressed willingness to provide credit of up to 400 million euros on the preferential basis, he said. - We believe that this question must be accelerated."
According to Polish Foreign Ministry's authorized representative, in general the first informal meeting of foreign ministers of EU member and partner countries can be considered fruitful. According to him, today the EU is facing important issues such as the implementation of already known projects, their financing, as well as the establishment of the EP Friends, initiated by Poland.
Tseshkovsky noted that many countries have supported this idea: this group may include such large countries as Russia, Japan, Turkey, etc. He said that talks on visa-free regime with the EU are successfully carried out with Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and countries such as Azerbaijan, Armenia and Belarus should accelerate the process.
The main priority for the EU is the human rights, and EP is aimed at increasing the values of Europe in countries of this initiative.
Tseshkovsky also said that the next EU summit scheduled for May 19, 2011 in Budapest, Hungary, who will chair the EU.