Summary

The Program, in which the Italian Parliament also participates, with the Hellenic Parliament as its leader, is funded exclusively by the European Commission. Its aim is the provision of the expertise in order to strengthen the Armenian National Assembly on monitoring the implementation of the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between Armenia and the EU, which covers bilateral trade and entrepreneurship issues.

Project INTER|PARES “Parliaments in Partnership” (https://www.idea.int/news-media/multimedia-reports/inter-pares-parliaments-partnership) is a part of the EU Global Project to Strengthen the Capacity of Parliaments that aims to strengthen representative and inclusive democracy through support to the effective functioning of parliaments in partner countries, by enhancing their legislative, oversight, representative, budgetary and administrative functions. This Action, the first of global nature, is a further step towards contributing towards making parliaments in partner countries more effective, transparent, accountable, representative and approachable.