03/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - With the crisis in Lebanon, a series of major natural disasters and the continuing burden of humanitarian crises, 2006 was a particularly difficult year for the EU's humanitarian aid department ECHO (a Directorate-General of the European Commission), explains the ECHO annual report for 2006, published on 28 September 2007. ECHO believes it managed to complete the task mandated to it and that in terms of its main aim, namely providing effective humanitarian aid,...