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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10193

3 August 2010
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/humanitarian aid
Commission provides €30 million to address urgent humanitarian needs in Pakistan

Brussels, 02/08/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has decided to send €30 million euros-worth of emergency humanitarian aid to help vulnerable people in Pakistan such as the internally-displaced (fleeing from conflict), returning refugees and host families.

The decision was announced in a press release issued on Saturday 31 July 2010. The money will come from ECHO's budget (the Commission's humanitarian aid department) and was released using the emergency procedure, meaning...