Press Release: The European Union and the Republic of Moldova enter into a mobility partnership

Jacques Barrot, the Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for justice, freedom and security, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the Commissioner responsible for external relations, Dragutin Mate, the Slovenian Minister for Home Affairs and Valentin Mejinschi, the Minister for Home Affairs of the Republic of Moldova, launched, in cooperation with the appropriate ministers of the Member States concerned (Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden) a mobility partnership between the European Union and the Republic of Moldova, by signing a Joint Declaration in the margins of the Justice and Home Affairs Council.