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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10196
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/humanitarian aid

79% of Europeans consider EU should provide humanitarian aid to countries outside its borders, a new Eurobarometer survey shows

Brussels, 05/08/2010 (Agence Europe) - Despite the current crisis, eight out of ten European citizens (79%) consider it important that the EU should fund humanitarian aid outside its borders to those affected by conflict or natural disasters. This was the main result reached by the new Eurobarometer survey (No 343) on humanitarian aid), published on Wednesday 4 August. The fact that Europeans carried out the survey in the wake of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on 12 January this year...