ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and French President Emmanuel Macron met at the Champs-Élysées Palace.

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hopes that the country will have a visa-free regime with the EU by 2029. He outlined this position during his speech at a panel discussion held by the Restart Foundation MaskOFF.

ArmInfo. Armenia may formally apply to join the EU in 2027 or 2028, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at the Euronews EU enlargement summit.

ArmInfo. The budget of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Armenia in 2027 will amount to 144.1 billion drams, which is 44.446 billion drams, or 40%, more than in the current year. This was stated by RA Minister of Internal Affairs Arpine Sargsyan on November 4 during budget hearings at a joint session of the National Assembly committees.

ArmInfo. Active work must continue to successfully conclude the visa liberalization negotiations between Armenia and the European Union. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this on November 2 during discussions of the draft state budget at a joint session of the National Assembly committees.

ArmInfo. On October 30, RA Interior Minister Arpine Sargsyan received a delegation led by Johannes Luchner, Deputy Director-General for Migration and Home Affairs of the European Commission.

ArmInfo. On October 30, RA Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan received a delegation led by Johannes Luchner, Deputy Director-General for Migration and Home Affairs of the European Commission. According to the government press service, the meeting was also attended by Interior Minister Arpine Sargsyan and Ambassador Vasilis Maragos, Head of the European Union Delegation to Armenia.

ArmInfo. Visa liberalization with the EU today depends more on Armenia than on the European side, according to Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan.

ArmInfo. The fifth meeting of the Armenia-EU Joint Working Group, co-chaired by Armenian Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan and the European Commission's Director-General for Enlargement and Enlargement Negotiations, Gert Jan Koopman, took place in Yerevan as part of the high-level political dialogue.

ArmInfo. It's impossible to draw parallels and claim that current events in European countries could impact visa liberalization for Armenia. Armenian Interior Minister Arpine Sargsyan stated this in a conversation with journalists in parliament on October 26.

ArmInfo. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan held separate meetings with UNESCO Director-General Khaled Al-Anani and European Commission Vice-President Teresa Ribera on the sidelines of COP17.

ArmInfo. Aram Vardevanyan, Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament from the Strong Armenia opposition faction, met with newly appointed French Ambassador to Armenia Florian Escudier, congratulating her on accepting her mission and expressing confidence that his work in Armenia will be effective and for the benefit of both countries.

ArmInfo. One of the European Union's most successful political initiatives, the Eastern Partnership, is currently being tested in the new realities of a gradually fragmenting world. This was stated by Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan during a roundtable discussion entitled "Rethinking the EU's Eastern Partnership," held within the Warsaw Security Forum.

ArmInfo. Armenia has recorded significant progress in a number of areas within the framework of the Armenia-EU Visa Liberalization Action Plan. This was stated in a statement by the Armenian Ministry of Internal Affairs. It is reported that the second EU assessment mission on the implementation of the Action Plan is in Armenia.

ArmInfo. On October 7, within the framework of the 153rd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Vahagn Aleksanyan met with the head of the Belgian Parliament's delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Karl Vanluwe, and members of the delegation. The meeting was attended by RA NA members Tsovinar Vardanyan and Hasmik Hakobyan.

ArmInfo. The European Commission is not offering special support packages for countries that do not have candidate status for EU accession, including Armenia, said European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos.

ArmInfo. On September 28, RA Interior Minister Arpine Sargsyan met with members of the delegation of the Council of the European Union's Working Group on Eastern Europe and Central Asia. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the meeting was also attended by the Head of the EU Delegation to the Republic of Armenia, Ambassador Vasilis Maragos, ambassadors of EU member states, representatives of diplomatic circles, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

ArmInfo. "When it comes to opening borders, we fully support normalization and peace in the region," said Ambassador Vasilis Maragos, Head of the EU Mission to Armenia, during the Comprehensive Security & Resilience International Conference.

ArmInfo. “We began the process of replacing the border guards long before the visa liberalization process,” Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told journalists during a briefing on September 17, rejecting the assertion that the reason for changing the Russian border services was preparations for visa liberalization with the EU.

ArmInfo. A referendum on joining the European Union (EU) or maintaining membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) has already been held twice, indirectly. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this in the Armenian parliament on September 16, responding to an opposition MP's question about whether the country intends to join the EU or is merely creating that impression.