€30 million for the Philippines: Commissioner Georgieva returns to Tacloban (Delegation of the European Union to the Philippines)

(Source: Delegation of the European Union to the Philippines) EUROPEAN UNION Delegation of the European Union to the Philippines 5 June 2014 €30 million for the Philippines: Commissioner Georgieva returns to Tacloban Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva today announced a €30 million grant in Manila with the Philippine Government in a further boost to the EU's reconstruction assistance in the wake of Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan. EU-funded humanitarian actions have already greatly contributed to meeting the emergency needs of the survivors of the world's most destructive typhoon ever recorded to have made landfall. But the road to reconstruction is still long. "My visit to Tacloban has...