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Article: ENLARGEMENT : MINISTERS AGREE AID FOR TURKISH CYPRIOTS.(Brief Article)
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- European Report
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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EU Foreign Ministers agreed on 27 February to provide 139 million for 2006 to Turkish Cyprus to help improve the economic situation in the northern part of the divided Mediterranean island. Ministers meeting in Brussels at their General Affairs and External Relations Council finally adopted without further debate a "Regulation establishing an instrument of financial support for encouraging the economic development of the Turkish Cypriot community". The aid is supposed to help the Turkish Cypriots in fields such as energy, environment and rural development, and help prepare them to apply EU law in future once the Cyprus problem has been resolved and the entire island is ...