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Welcome to European Friends of Armenia

Thank you for your interest in European-Armenian relations. Whether you are an Armenian friend of Europe or a European friend of Armenia, our organisation and this website want to help build closer connections. Armenia features higher on the European agenda than ever, but the EU and Armenia must work hard to make projects like the Eastern Partnership become a noticeable success.
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  • Wednesday 25 January 2012

    Erdogan hysteric – should he resign?

    On 25 January 2012 Mediamax news agency, to which our Secretary General, Michael Kambeck, is a columnist, published his commentary on the reactions in Turkey regarding the French bill prohibiting the denial of the Armenian Genocide, adopted by the French Senate on 23 January 2012.
  • Tuesday 24 January 2012

    The 10th round of trilateral Karabakh talks took place in Sochi

    On 23 January the Presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia met in Sochi to discuss the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. This was their tenth trilateral summit. A joint statement was issued in which the leaders noted that in the aftermath of intensive negotiations a progress has been achieved in the coordination of the basic principles of Nagorno-Karabakh settlement.
  • Monday 12 December 2011

    OSCE summit hosts meeting of Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan about Karabakh

    On 6 December 2011, during the OSCE Ministerial Council Meeting in Vilnius, the Heads of Delegation of the Minsk Group Co-Chair Countries and the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan discussed the Karabakh conflict.
  • Tuesday 29 November 2011

    Philippe Lefort discusses Karabakh conflict with Armenian officials

    EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia Philippe Lefort visited Armenia on 28 November 2011. The focus of his trip was discussion of the current stage of the Karabakh conflict settlement, as well as Catherine Ashton's recent visit to the region.

Latest Publications

  • Monday 26 December 2011

    War Rhetoric of Azerbaijani officials

    Azerbaijani officials, mainly President Ilham Aliyev, are recently increasing their war rhetoric with regard to Nagorno-Karabakh, frequently threatening to take the region back by force. The document linked below is a collection of their most recent statements (2007-2011). The articles are organised in a chronological way, with the first one being the most recent.

    Click here to download the document

  • Thursday 08 September 2011

    Oil and democracy in the UK Azerbaijan relations – an opinion poll analysis

    The purpose of this paper is to analyse the UK-Azerbaijan relations in light of the findings of a recent opinion poll on the importance of values in British foreign policy, commissioned by the Brussels-based European Foundation for Democracy (EFD, www.europeandemocracy.org).
  • Wednesday 31 August 2011

    The EU’s assistance and development programmes in Armenia – an introduction with concrete examples

    This short-paper gives an overview of the EU's development projects in Armenia, with the aim of providing an introduction to understanding the EU's cooperation mechanism with its Eastern European neighbours.

  • Tuesday 23 November 2010

    Comparative Opinion Polls in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh on Socio-Political Issues and Foreign Relations - Armenia results

    The Armenia poll of the first ever internationally conducted Comparative Opinion Polls in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh on Socio-Political Issues and Foreign Relations. The poll in Armenia contains questions about Armenia's internal situation, Turkey, Nagorno-Karabakh, the EU, the OSCE and other international players relevant for Armenia. Please click here to download the Executive Summary (pdf document).


  • Tuesday 19 October 2010

    A closer look at the EU-Armenia Association Agreement negotiations

    EuFoA's policy paper on Association Agreement negotiations between Armenia and the EU. This paper is, amongst others, the result of a round table on the Association Agreement negotiations, organised by EuFoA in July with Mr Gunnar Wiegand, Director for Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia at DG Relex in the European Commission, who is chief negotiator for the talks from the European side. Please click here to read more about the event.
  • Thursday 16 September 2010

    Europe's options in Nagorno-Karabakh. An analysis of views of the European Parliament

    A short paper by EuFoA which combines the result of a poll among 100 MEPs carried out by the British company ComRes in the European Parliament in August 2010 with wider political and policy developments to provide an insight into the views of legislators.
  • Wednesday 15 September 2010

    Annex to shortpaper: ComRes EuroPoll survey among MEPS about Nagorno-Karabakh

    A survey conducted by the ComRes EuroPoll panel among 100 MEPs between 19th July and 4th August 2010 regarding the potential EU role in avoiding the outbreak of war in Nagorno-Karabakh (N-K).
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