The EU has suspended its direct budget support to the Ethiopian government for failing to obtain full humanitarian access to the victims of the conflict raging in the Tigray region, announced the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, on Friday, 15 January.
“In the absence of full humanitarian access to all areas of the conflict, we have no alternative but to postpone the planned disbursement of €88 million in budget support”, he said...