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Jun 2015 Financial News

EU doubles funding for the Caribbean

Jun 12, 2015

BRUSSELS—EU High Representative/Vice-President of the Commission Federica Mogherini yesterday signed a €346 million new regional funding programme with the Caribbean region until 2020. This represents more than a doubling of the funds that were available in previous years (€165 million euros).

The programme, designed together with the Caribbean representative organisation Cariforum, establishes jointly agreed priorities for bi-regional cooperation.

The signing took place on the occasion of the EU-Celec (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) Summit and the EU-Cariforum High Level Event in Brussels.

Vice-President Mogherini said: “The EU and the Caribbean have strong historic, economic and cultural ties, based on common values.

“With this new funding, we want to further strengthen our common efforts towards more inclusive and sustainable development and prosperity and will continue to stand by the side of the Caribbean people to continue to develop our excellent, mutually-beneficial partnership based on respect and common values.”

Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica said: “With the signing of the regional programme we can now mobilise resources for the implementation of our jointly-defined priorities.

“This also illustrates not only the EU’s continued commitment but also continued engagement in the region.”

The funds announced yesterday for the Caribbean are part of an overall package of the European Union of almost €700 million in support of Latin America and the Caribbean, presented in the context of the EUCelac Heads of State and Government Summit (June 10-11) and the EUCELAC Business Summit.

 

Source:
Trinidad Guardian, A18
Friday June 12, 2015