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,...