login
login

Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8863

11 January 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 13 / 34
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/asia/earthquake
Extraordinary Council conclusions show EU's awareness of dealing with global disaster - future rapid reaction capacity should handle national susceptibilities carefully

Brussels, 10/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - The unanimous conclusions of the Extraordinary EU Council last Friday, devoted to improving the EU's response to the tsunami which devastated South Asia, have shown the EU's resolve to deploy every effort financially, by confirming its promise to commit over EUR 1.5 billion to immediately alleviate the suffering of the disaster-stricken populations, preventing epidemics which would make loss of human life even greater, and beginning the reconstruction...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT