IPA Multi-country Programme Coordination Meeting was held 2018 in Brussels on 24 October 2019. The representatives from European Commission Directorate-General Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR), EU Delegations, National IPA Coordinator (NIPAC) Offices and the Regional Cooperation Council attended the meeting in which Turkey was represented by a delegation consisting of Acting Director General Bülent Özcan, Head of Department Şebnem Sözer, and EU Affairs Experts Serkan Bozkurt and Mehmet Arslan from the Directorate for EU Affairs.
The opening remarks of the meeting were delivered by Colin Wolfe, Head of Western Balkans Regional Cooperation in the Directorate General for Neighbourhood & Enlargement Negotiations from European Commission. “Rule of Law”,’’Democracy’’ “Good Governance”, ‘’Civil Society and Media’’, ‘’Socio-Economic Development” and “Connectivity” were the main highlights of the meeting.
In the meeting, Multi-country Programme 2020 programming year and the developments in the previous years were addressed. Also, the representatives had exchange of ideas on the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance 2021-2027 period (IPA III).