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Commission proposes to make funds available for crisis repair and recovery as of 2020 and to top up support for #Syria refugees

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On 3 June, the Commission proposed two amendments to the 2020 budget. The Commission is proposing to make €11.5 billion for crisis repair and recovery available already in 2020. Once available, the funding help the regions most in need, support businesses and those in need outside EU borders. This follows up on the major recovery plan that the Commission put forward last week, consisting of a new recovery instrument, Next Generation EU, embedded within a revamped long-term EU budget. As part of the plan, the Commission has proposed to raise €750bn on the markets and channel them to the EU recovery.

The full press release is available here.

The Commission is also proposing to top up support for refugees and host communities in response to the Syria crisis by a total of €585 million.

€100m of EU assistance to Jordan and Lebanon will target areas such as access to education, support to livelihoods and provision of health, sanitation, waste services and social protection to host communities and refugees. €485m will support refugees in Turkey in 2020 and continue the EU’s two flagship humanitarian programmes, which provide monthly financial assistance to some 1.7 million refugees and help over 600,000 refugee children regularly attend school.

The full press release is available here.

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