Brussels, 30/11/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has announced it approves the granting of direct budgetary aid (paid in two tranches) to Turkey (in the context of the Meda Programme). Aid amounts to EUR 150 million and is intended to support the economic and social policies that Turkey has implemented in order to achieve the structural and sectoral reforms necessary, mainly for preparing EU accession. The Commission explicitly points out that the measures "have been conceived...