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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9234

18 July 2006
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/lebanon
Louis Michel announces immediate humanitarian aid

Brussels, 17/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - In response to the unfolding tragedy in the Middle East, development commissioner Louis Michel announced on Monday that the Commission was making €5 million available for possible humanitarian aid in Lebanon. “Innocent people are suffering and we have a duty to ease that suffering as quickly as possible,” says Mr Michel in a press release, indicating that funding decisions have to be based on proper needs assessment. It is very difficult, he says,...

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