EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini announced at a donor conference in Rome on Thursday 15 March that the EU was donating €82 million that same day to the 2018 operating budget of the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency in Palestine (UNRWA).
This is an early disbursement of the European Union’s usual annual contribution for 2018 in order to ease the impact of the suspension of US aid (see EUROPE 11951).
Mogherini stated that the EU had...