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Parliamentary question - E-002083/2016Parliamentary question
E-002083/2016

Youth exchanges within the western Balkans and regulated labour migration to the EU

Question for written answer E-002083-16
to the Commission
Rule 130
Reimer Böge (PPE) , David McAllister (PPE)

The Western Balkans region (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia) is politically, legally, economically, and ethnically highly diverse. In order to secure peace and stability in the long term, not least in view of the refugee crisis, the EU needs to engage with the region on a long-term basis. Erasmus+, IPA II, and other EU programmes are designed to allow for that fact, for example by supporting intensive exchanges of and with young students and professionals from the Balkan region.

Regarding the implementation of EU assistance programmes: