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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8861

7 January 2005
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/asia/earthquake
Additional aid of EUR 450 million announced by Barroso takes EU total to around EUR 1.5 bn (emergency and medium-term reconstruction aid) - EIB issues EUR 1 bn in loans

Brussels, 06/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - At the special Asian leaders' meeting in Jakarta on 6 January, the European Union pledged financial solidarity with the victims of the unprecedented tsunami in south-east Asia on Boxing Day. Announcing European Commission's plans for a further EUR 450 million in emergency aid (EUR 100 million) and medium-term reconstruction aid from the EU budget, the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Durao Barroso, said the EU's aid to date totals EUR...

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