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The EU executive has proposed to double funding for the Middle East and North Africa region to €42.5bn as part of an overall proposal to allocate €215bn to the Global Europe budget (Photo: European Commission)

Beefed up Global Europe fund will allow EU to be 'players, not just payers'

The EU’s beefed up €215bn external spending plan “will allow us to be players, not just payers,” the EU commissioner for the Mediterranean, Dubravka Suica, told reporters on Thursday (17 July). 

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The EU executive has proposed to double funding for the Middle East and North Africa region to €42.5bn as part of an overall proposal to allocate €215bn to the Global Europe budget (Photo: European Commission)

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Author Bio

Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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