Russian invasion of Ukraine / Humanitarian aid

Janez Lenarčič calls on international community to close funding gap for exponential global needs

Brussels, 25/04/2022 (Agence Europe)

In front of the MEPs of the European Parliament’s Committee on Development, the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, once again insisted, on Monday 25 April, on the magnitude of humanitarian needs in the world and the alarming gap in funding that needs to be filled (see EUROPE B12917A21), calling on the international community to ‘do more and better’ to respond.

“274 million people were in need of humanitarian assistance before the crisis, according to the...