On Monday 9 January, the European Commission announced that three new planes carrying emergency humanitarian assistance from Austria and France have arrived in Iraq. In total, 266 tonnes of emergency assistance have been channelled through the EU's civil protection mechanism since the initial shipments were sent to Mosul in mid-December 2016(see EUROPE 11688).
Six EU member states (Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France and Sweden) and Norway have given tents, blankets,...