Following the Paris attacks the secretary-general of the Arab League has urged greater cooperation between it and the EU to counter extremism. Addressing the European Parliament's...
The European Commission and Italy have signed today (15 December) the constitutive agreement to launch the first-ever EU Regional Trust Fund as a new strategic financing tool to mobilize more aid in...
With growing numbers of refugees from Syria seeking sanctuary in Turkey, the European Commission is stepping up its assistance with an additional €10 million in humanitarian...
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today (9 December) that it is reinstating food assistance to Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries thanks to a...
Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Commissioner Christos Stylianides made the following statement: "I am deeply concerned by the World Food Program’s (WFP) suspension of food assistance for more than...
The European Commission today (4 December) adopted a package worth €180 million to deal with the effects of the Syrian crisis in the country itself, as...
Lebanon, a country of a little more than four million inhabitants, is struggling to shelter 1.5 million Syrian refugees. "They are sharing our water, electricity, schools...