www.sofiaecho.com - The European Commission has finalised a series of aid programmes designed to support
reforms in Balkan countries wishing to join the EU in a pre-accession programme totalling almost one billion euro.
The funding comes under the 2011 budget of the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA), and will be
available to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, as well as Kosovo, Turkey,
and Iceland.
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