Press Release: IPA: €2 billion package to support reforms in the Western Balkans and Turkey in 2014

The European Commission finalised on the 17 December 2014 its 2014 package of pre-accession assistance programmes to support reforms in countries wishing to join the EU. The funding, totalling EUR 2 billion, came under the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA), and would be available to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo and Turkey. The package also included multi-annual programmes to support specific sectors over the next three years in Turkey and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.