The Council of Europe underlines that in order to ensure mobility in a secure and well-managed environment, the successful implementation of existing visa liberalisation action plans through continuous fulfilment of relevant benchmarks, and of the visa facilitation and readmission agreements is essential, Trend reports citing the Council of Europe.

In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the European Commission has revised its traditional support programs, including those targeting Eastern Partnership countries, Katarína Mathernová, Deputy Director-General, European Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission said, Trend reports.

The European Union has allocated €14 million to Azerbaijan to assist the country’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic, the European Union's Eastern Neighborhood announced in its official website on April 8.

Head of the Department for Foreign Policy Affairs of Azerbaijan’s Presidential Administration Hikmet Hajiyev has said Azerbaijan welcomes the fact that the EU consistently supports Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity, inviolability of borders and sovereignty.

Baku has hosted a round table dedicated to the EU4Digital project upon the European Commission's Eastern Partnership's (EaP) Harmonization of Digital Markets (HDM) program.

The trade turnover between Azerbaijan and the EU increased by 28 percent over the past ten years, the head of the EU Delegation to Azerbaijan, Ambassador Kestutis Jankauskas, said during the event dedicated to the results of Eastern Partnership program held at the embassy of Poland in Azerbaijan on December 23.

"The Eastern Partnership Media Conference 2019: Business and Sustainability" will take place in Riga, Latvia, on 13-14 November.

Total lending of the European Investment Bank (EIB) to the Eastern Partnership countries stood at €8.93 billion since 2007 to 2018, Trend reports citing EIB.

The final document following the meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels dedicated to the 10th anniversary of launching the EU Eastern Partnership program was not planned to be adopted at all, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg Fuad Isgandarov said.

European Union (EU) and Azerbaijan cooperate in different fields and energy cooperation, which was launched in 2006, is especially noticeable.