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EU-Turkey Agreement: Questions and Answers
Date: 19/03/2016
European Commission – Fact Sheet Brussels, 19 March 2016 Factsheet on the EU-Turkey Agreement What has been agreed? On 18 March, following on from the EU-Turkey Joint Action Plan activated on 29 November 2015 and the 7 March EU-Turkey statement, the European Union and Turkey decided to end the irregular…

President Juncker appoints EU Coordinator to organise operational implementation in Greece
Date: 18/03/2016
European Commission – Press release Brussels, 18 March 2016 President Juncker appoints EU Coordinator to organise operational implementation in Greece President Juncker has today appointed Maarten Verwey to act as the EU Coordinator to implement the EU-Turkey statement.

EU steps up humanitarian assistance for Ukraine by €20 million
Date: 16/03/2016
European Commission – Press release Brussels, 16 March 2016 €20 million in humanitarian assistance for people in need in Ukraine and neighbouring countries. Today the European Commission is increasing its humanitarian response to help people affected by the conflict in eastern Ukraine, with a new humanitarian aid package worth €20…

Six Principles for further developing EU-Turkey Cooperation in tackling the Migration Crisis
Date: 16/03/2016
European Commission – Press release Brussels, 16 March 2016 Six Principles for further developing EU-Turkey Cooperation in tackling the Migration Crisis On 7 March, EU leaders agreed that bold moves were needed to close down people smuggling routes, to break the business model of the smugglers, to protect the EU…

Relocation and Resettlement: EU Member States urgently need to deliver
Date: 16/03/2016
European Commission – Press release Brussels, 16 March 2016 Relocation and Resettlement: EU Member States urgently need to deliver In 2015 the Commission took decisive action to help address the refugee crisis that EU Member States and neighbouring countries are facing.

Syria Crisis: European Commission announces €445 million in humanitarian aid
Date: 15/03/2016
European Commission – Press release Brussels, 15 March 2016 Today the European Commission announces €445 million in humanitarian aid for the Syria crisis in 2016. The support is part of the Commission’s pledge made at the conference ‘Supporting Syria and the Region’ held earlier this year in London, where the…

European Commission announces €38 million for new development programmes in Sri Lanka
Date: 15/03/2016
– Press release European Commission Brussels, 15 March 2016 Today the European Commission will co-sign two new support programmes worth €38 million in total in the field of rural development and trade with Sri Lanka, as EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica, arrives for a three day…

EU supports Zika research with €10 million
Date: 15/03/2016
European Commission – Press release Brussels, 15 March 2016 The European Commission is today releasing €10 million for research on the Zika virus, currently affecting large parts of Latin America. The most affected country is Brazil, where the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that the recent cluster of severe…