Aid

Self-styled anarchist group Rouvikonas stormed into the offices of British aid organization Oxfam in central Athens Thursday and threw paint to protest against a sex abuse scandal affecting the charity.

Ten people who had covered their faces smashed windows and damaged computers before leaving the NGO's premises on Patission Street.

Self-styled anarchist group Rouvikonas stormed into the offices of British aid organization Oxfam in central Athens on Thursday and threw paint to protest against the sex abuse scandal affecting the charity.

Ten people who had covered their faces smashed windows and damaged computers before leaving the NGO's premises on Patission avenue.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas announced on Wednesday that Germany will donate an additional €1 billion ($1.22 billion) in aid to Syria and neighboring countries who are hosting Syrian refugees.

"In Syria alone there are still more than 13 million people who are dependent on humanitarian aid," Maas said as he arrived in Brussels for a humanitarian aid drive for Syria.

ATW - The European Commission (EC) has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether Italy's €900 million ($1.1 billion) bridge loan to flag carrier Alitalia constituted state aid and whether it complied with European Union (EU) rules for aid to companies in difficulty.

Four years after the start of the new programming period and three years before its end, Bulgaria continues to lag behind in the absorption of European structural and investment funds. At the end of 2017, our country managed to use only 1.587 billion euros, or 16% of the funds allocated to it from the EU budget, according to an analysis by the finance ministry.

42 people have as much money as 50% of the world's poorest population, according to a study by Oxfam.

A Saudi-led military coalition announced $1.5 billion in new humanitarian aid for Yemen on Jan. 22, after the United Nations made what it called a record appeal for assistance for the war-ravaged country.

Turkey provided official development assistance worth $21 billion to 170 countries from 2010 to 2016, according to data from the state development aid agency.

The budgets of the Bulgarian families have undergone significant metamorphoses in recent years. There is a clear trend - the burden on food costs is decreasing, but the burden of tax and social security increases, says an analysis of the Institute for Market Economics (IME).

Turkey has a unique relief model in which humanitarian assistance and development aid go hand-in-hand, according to Mehmet Güllüoğlu, the head of the relief agency AFAD. Emboldened by the country coming second in global relief aid in 2016, Güllüoğlu says Turkey’s humanitarian assistance would continue unabated