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Socio-economic development

Raising competitiveness and fostering human development and business environment and infrastructure are major challenges of enlargement policy. These challenges encompass vocational training, reform of labour markets, equal opportunities, as well as legal and fiscal reforms.

Links to projects on economic development

  • Regional Info Centre in Herzegovina (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  • Tackle fiscal fraud by exchanging information on VAT (Croatia)
  • EU loan for small businesses (Turkey)

Links to projects on social development

  • New Ambulances for Health Centres (Serbia)
  • EU supports new Business Education Centre (The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
  • Second chance in education and employement (Montenegro)
Last update: 17/02/2012 | Top