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EU must decide and deliver crisis aid faster, say foreign affairs MEPs
"We need to make our budgetary procedure simpler and faster: currently there is too much bureaucracy, and money given too late for humanitarian actions is wasted money," urged Foreign Affairs Committee chair Elmar Brok (EPP, DE) in the recent committee debate on international crises in the EU’s neighbourhood. In Iraq, national reconciliation can be achieved only by the Iraqi people themselves, albeit with EU assistance, and EU member states must coordinate plans to arm the Kurds, said head of the EU’s Iraq Delegation Jana Hybaskova.
In Ukraine, humanitarian aid and eventual reconstruction costs could amount to “billions of euro”, warned Ertugul Apakan, chief monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine and Peter Balas, head of the European Commission Support Group for Ukraine.
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