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02.03.2024 News

Grave and worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza calls for more urgent EU response

The catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza requires urgent action. In the face of recent developments, the EU must help avert further loss of civilian life. The ETUC calls on the EU to increase, speed up and ensure full delivery of funding and to redouble all efforts to ensure that lifesaving humanitarian aid, on the scale that is needed, is safely and urgently delivered. The EU should encourage governments who have suspended aid to immediately restore and increase humanitarian funding. 
27.02.2024 News

Cutting ambition: EU budget scaled down

EU budget cut
National governments have reduced the top up of the EU budget until 2027 from an initial objective of €100 billion to €65 billion. The review of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), adopted yesterday by the EU, determines EU funding up to the end of 2027. The ETUC warns that EU funding to support working people through the digital and environmental transitions, to research and to strengthening care systems is facing severe cuts. Frugal Europe