Aid

BRUSSELS - Serbia has partly carried out a 2022 policy guidance but has reached a good level of compliance in most statistical areas, according to the Joint Conclusions of the Economic and Financial Dialogue between the EU and the Western Balkans and Turkey (ECOFIN).

The total budget of the 392 investment plans submitted with the funding arm of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, "Greece 2.0," so far is 12.33 billion euros, Alternate Finance Minister Thodoros Skylakakis stated this week.

The EU member states approved today a total of 70 million euros in aid for the armed forces of Moldova and Georgia.

In order to prevent the chaos in the aid to quake zone, which has come to mind with the sights of clothes thrown on the streets, the parliamentary earthquake commission has suggested switching to the barcode system, which enables the classification and tracking of aid.

The ruling Social Democratic Party in Romania supports a ban on the import of Ukrainian grain to be introduced in Bulgaria's northern neighbor. This has already been done by Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, with only Bratislava allowing transit. Bulgaria is also considering a ban.

The international community has collected slightly more than 6 billion euros for Türkiye and around 1 billion euros for Syria in a major donors' conference organized by the European Union to assist the victims of the Feb. 6 earthquakes and the reconstruction of 11 Turkish provinces.
 

Ads costing $3.6 million have sought aid for Ukraine from seven countries of the Western Balkans since Russia's invasion a year ago, a BIRN analysis shows.

Tired of mounting debt and multiple crises, leaders of the world's poorest countries have called for a rewrite of the rules governing the granting of billions of dollars.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has accused the world's rich nations and energy giants of squeezing poor countries with "predatory" interest rates and "crushing" fuel prices. Speaking to leaders of more than 40 countries in need, at a conference in Doha, Guterres said rich nations should provide $500 billion a year in aid:

The European Union is poised to turn on its subsidies tap again, this time to counter U.S. clean energy aid, after already doling out billions in the last three years to businesses hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent war in Ukraine.