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EU executive offers 1 billion euros to help rebuild Türkiye from earthquake

EU executive offers 1 billion euros to help rebuild Türkiye from earthquake

The EU government will give 1 billion euros ($1.07 bln) to assist reconstruction in Türkiye, the pinnacle of the European Commission mentioned on Monday in launching a world convention to drum up assist following a devastating earthquake there final month.

Commission head Ursula von der Leyen mentioned the earthquake killed practically 50,000 folks in Türkiye and the neighbouring Syria, the most important pure catastrophe within the area in years.

“Millions are now homeless and living in tents as the winter drags on,” she informed at first of the convention.

“We need to mobilise for reconstruction. Homes and schools and hospitals must be rebuilt, with the highest standards of seismic safety. Water and sanitation and other critical infrastructure must be repaired. Public services and businesses need capital to restart, so that people can earn a living.”

She mentioned the Commission would spend an extra 108 million euros on humanitarian help and early restoration in Syria, the place the European Union doesn’t have diplomatic ties with President Bashar al-Assad over a warfare that had began in 2011.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) estimated “total financial burden of the earthquake disaster” for Türkiye at some $103.6 billion and mentioned that amounted to 9% of the nation’s GDP forecast for 2023.

Source: www.anews.com.tr