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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10868

18 June 2013
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) eu/un
EU food facility - FAO awards prize to EU

Brussels, 17/06/2013 (Agence Europe) - The Jacques Diouf Prize, the very first of its kind ever awarded by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) in recognition of work to combat hunger in the world, was awarded on Saturday 15 June to the EU for its Food Facility with its envelope of €1 billion. José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, collected the prize in Rome on Saturday, at the 38th FAO conference.

With this Facility, which was created in 2008 at the peak of...

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