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The EU decided to prepare a new program of the European Neighbourhood Policy worth 20 million euros for the next year, European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Štefan Füle said at a conference on media prospects in Brussels on Tuesday.

Moreover, Fule said that the EU decided to strengthen the Erasmus Mundus program.

The program aims at promoting European higher education, assisting to improve students' career prospects and promote intercultural understanding through cooperation with third countries. It is done in conformity with the objectives of the EU foreign policy aimed at promoting sustainable development in higher education.

Relations between the EU and Azerbaijan were established in 1990s. The European Commission supported the CIS countries within the TACIS program.

There is an agreement on partnership and cooperation agreement between the EU and Azerbaijan. It entered into force in 1999. The countries cooperate within the European Neighbourhood Policy, has been operating since 2003.

Relations between Azerbaijan and the EU entered a new phase - a partnership within the EU Eastern Partnership in May 2008 launched by Poland and Sweden.