It is noted that the European Commission plans to conduct communication activities to raise awareness of residents about the importance of EU support in the region.
“Raising awareness and conducting information campaigns about the importance of EU support in the region where candidate countries are present (for EU accession. -
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), including using audiovisual products,” the document says.
In addition, the compilers plan to disseminate information "on the same topic" in real time through online publications and social networks.
Information campaigns in other areas involve public opinion polls, media monitoring, as well as support for the communication activities of EU delegations, follows from the description of the agreement.
The amount of funding will be €5 million.
Political scientist Ivan Mezyuho, in a conversation with RT, noted that Europe and the West regularly work with the media in these regions.
“The West has always closely followed what is happening in the Balkans and Turkey, because these are the regions that belong to the zone of US strategic interests, and the EC today, by and large, pays for the work that the Americans need.
I think that for a single day over the past decade, work with the media and other political actors from the West in these regions has not stopped, ”the expert emphasized.
Earlier, the US Embassy in North Macedonia announced an open competition for programs aimed at "development of democratic institutions" in the country.