Eastern Partnership not an `instrument` of EU enlargement: Merkel

 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that the European Union`s Eastern Partnership project with ex-Soviet states was "not an instrument" of EU enlargement policy.

Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that the European Union`s Eastern Partnership project with ex-Soviet states was "not an instrument" of EU enlargement policy.

Addressing the German parliament ahead of a summit of the 28-nation EU with six former Soviet states in the Latvian capital, Merkel also said "we must not therefore arouse false expectations which we cannot later fulfil".

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