Syria crisis: the EU responds to spiralling needs with more emergency humanitarian aid

EU News 227/2013

IP/13/416
Brussels, 12 May 2013

The European Commission is announcing today an additional €65 million in response to the rapidly growing scale of the humanitarian crisis resulting from the conflict in Syria. With more intense fighting in Syria and just three months after pledging € 100 million at the Kuwait donors' conference, the Commission is stepping up its effort to fund aid agencies because of the scale of the emergency.

Source and additional information:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-416_en.htm?locale=en

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