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EU humanitarian aid should be free from geopolitical manoeuvering, say NGOs (Photo: European Commission)

Outcry at EU plan to mix aid and foreign policy

by Andrew Willis, Brussels,

Discussions are under way for a potential merger between the EU's humanitarian aid and crisis management budgets after 2013, raising concerns among a number of NGOs and MEPs that EU aid could become increasingly politicised.

The commission's humanitarian aid budget in 2010 was €1.2 billion, administered by Bulgarian commissioner Kristalina Georgieva, while crisis management resources are being increasingly directed by the EU's new External Action Service under Italian official Agostino ...

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EU humanitarian aid should be free from geopolitical manoeuvering, say NGOs (Photo: European Commission)

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