According to a document obtained by Euronews and people familiar with the situation, the European Parliament approved the opening of new liaison offices in Moldova and Albania on Monday, March 10, amid worries that the war in Ukraine is deteriorating the EU’s ties with Southeastern and Eastern Europe.
In the document, the bureau, an administrative body of the European Parliament, “noted that it proved difficult to cover Moldova and the other countries of the Eastern Partnership from the antenna office to be established in Kyiv due to the ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine, and that alternative solutions would have to be considered.
Following a thorough overhaul of the Parliament’s “Directorate General for Parliamentary Democracy Partnerships,” which had previously authorized the opening of a new office in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, new offices have been established.
According to a person who knows the situation, Kyiv’s office is anticipated to open this spring, Euronews said. For strategic reasons, the European Parliament maintains liaison offices throughout the EU and a few in non-EU nations. In addition to a new office in Panama to oversee relations with Latin America, the document states that the European Parliament has “three operational antenna offices located in New York for relations with the United Nations, in Jakarta for relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and in Addis Ababa for relations with the African Union.
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