EU Pledges €411M to Western Balkans, €68M to Kosovo to Fight Coronavirus

exit.al 25 Mars 2020, 16:03

The European Union has pledged €411 million in aid to help the six Western Balkan countries fight the coronavirus outbreak.

Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia will be allocated €38 million for immediate support to their healthcare systems, and €373 million will go for social and economic recovery.

The news was announced by Olivér Várhelyi, the European Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, who tweeted:

https://twitter.com/OliverVarhelyi/status/1242816795939127296

The head of the EU delegation in Kosovo Nataliya Apostolova stated that Kosovo’s share from this aid will be €68 million.

https://twitter.com/ApostolovaEU/status/1242819793385906176

The EU has announced some of its aid to Albania, Kosovo and Serbia earlier.

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