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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10049

6 January 2010
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/palestine
European payments to Palestinian Authority budget to ensure continuity of public service

Brussels, 05/01/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission, speaking from the West Bank, on Tuesday 5 January, announced that it had transferred €6.3 million to the Palestinian Authority to cover civil servants' salaries and pensions and to ensure that public service is maintained in both the West Bank and Gaza. The money comes from the European support programme PEGASE, to which Ireland and Luxembourg contributed €1.5 million and €500,000 respectively to complement the...

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