{"id":57190,"date":"2015-05-22T14:09:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T14:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=537d34ef22007444e852ee8f89a30811"},"modified":"2015-05-22T14:09:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T14:09:33","slug":"news-story-prime-minister-announces-support-for-eastern-european-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=57190","title":{"rendered":"News story: Prime Minister announces support for Eastern European reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Ten projects worth nearly \u00a33.5 million will form the first tranche of projects of the UK\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-uk-funding-to-help-build-stronger-and-more-democratic-nations-in-the-eastern-neighbourhood-and-balkans\">Good Governance Fund<\/a>, Prime Minister David Cameron said at the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga today. <\/p>\n<p>The Fund, launched at the March European Council, is providing up to \u00a320 million in 2015\/16 to support economic reform and good governance in at least five Eastern neighbourhood and Balkan countries.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister David Cameron said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">These initiatives will help to improve the business environment and encourage investment, strengthen a free and independent media, and support judicial reform. This is driven by the aspirations of these countries and will help them build a better future for their people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>International Development Secretary Justine Greening said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A stronger, more democratic and more successful Eastern neighbourhood is in all our interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">These new projects will fight corruption, improve the judicial system and make it easier to do business in these countries, helping to boost stability and prosperity on the EU\u2019s doorstep.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The ten projects announced today include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Over \u00a32 million for projects in Ukraine, including \u00a31 million to establish an anti-corruption body and \u00a3200,000 for projects supporting independent media organisations and journalists<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\u00a3750,000 for a technical assistance programme in Moldova which will support rule of law reforms, access to justice, judicial reforms, arbitration and mediation<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\u00a3650,000 to build Georgia\u2019s capacity to better communicate and advise local small businesses on the opportunities to trade with the world\u2019s largest single market <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Eastern Partnership Summit brings together the EU and its Eastern Partners &#8211; Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Belarus \u2013 to assist Eastern European countries as they undertake political, economic and governance reforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will support projects tackling corruption, improving access to justice and advising small businesses in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}