HUMANITARIAN AID Equipment
Georgieva wants binding crisis-response pledges
By Toby Vogel - 21.12.2011 / 05:19 CET
Commission should use EU funds for equipment.
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New, long-term priorities for the international community will dominate discussion when development ministers from the European Union's member states meet on Tuesday (28 May). |
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KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA Says €1 invested saves €4-€7. EC
Fact file
Emergency funding for 2012
The European Commission on Friday (16 December) announced its allocation of €640 million in humanitarian funding for next year. Following a global needs assessment, the Commission allocated €102m to the Horn of Africa, €87m to north and south Sudan, and €40m-€45m each to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Sahel region and Palestine. More than half the allocated funding goes to sub-Saharan Africa. This year, the Commission spent €1.1 billion on humanitarian aid, roughly half of it in emergency funding decisions.
New, long-term priorities for the international community will dominate discussion when development ministers from the European Union's member states meet on Tuesday (28 May).
Agreement hoped for on overhaul of state aid
Conflict-afflicted states need to be able to determine their own destinies
Progress of the EU's development policy plans
Zimbabwe and Eastern partnership will also be discussed.
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