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Syrian children receiving UN world food programme donations. The Fourth Syrian donor conference takes place in Brussels on Tuesday (Photo: WFP)

What hope for this Syrian donor conference?

Disappointing and frustrating: these two words describe best the way Brussels has been dealing with the conflict in Syria so far.

The war has had an impact on the civilian population that is hard to put into words. Hundreds of thousands have been killed, millions lost their homes.

Syria is located in the EU's close neighbourhood. Laranca, Cyprus, is only 200km away from the Syrian port of Latakia.

Yet the EU has become a bystander in this conflict, because so far, those p...

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Syrian children receiving UN world food programme donations. The Fourth Syrian donor conference takes place in Brussels on Tuesday (Photo: WFP)

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Hannah Neumann is a German MEP for the Greens.

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