Minister without portfolio in charge of European integration and national IPA coordinator Jadranka Joksimovic spoke with Director of the Directorate for Enlargement, European Commission Jean-Eric Paquet on the programming of IPA 2015.
Joksimovic and Paquet reached an agreement that it is necessary to improve sectoral cooperation in the planning and programming of IPA for the upcoming year.
They discussed the possibility that a significant part of the funds be directed as a social support package for economic reforms.
Also, they reached a general agreement to organise a meeting of the national IPA coordinators from the region, to consider the improvement of the implementation of projects of regional significance, which would be financed by IPA funds and other financial instruments.