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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10383
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/foreign affairs

Development of South Sudan - focus of Tuesday's Council

Brussels, 20/05/2011 (Agence Europe) - EU aid to South Sudan, a future state whose independence will be proclaimed on 9 July this year, will be the weightiest issue covered by the Foreign Affairs Council which is to meet in development format in Brussels on Tuesday 24 May. The day before, if the last parliamentary reservation by an EU member state can be lifted, the Council will have formally decided, without debate, to allocate €200 million to that country. Funding would be used to back...

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