On behalf of the European Parliament, he will negotiate with the Council of the EU and the Commission, the terms for the allocation of IPA III funding in the next seven-year EU budget period 2021-27. The instrument was originally established for the budget period 2007-13, and currently IPA II is being implemented until the end of 2020. The beneficiaries of the IPA II programme are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Turkey, and its budget is €11.7 billion.
"It is of strategic interest for Croatia to have other EU members on its external borders one day. The EU's enlargement policy, which offers membership candidates the prospect of future economic development and security, is inseparably linked to the conditions of adherence to values such as liberal democracy, respect for human rights and rule of law, from which we as the Union must not depart. That's why it is good that the new IPA III will put special emphasis on that", Picula said on his appointment.
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