Cyprus and Greece will receive aid for the most deprived
Cyprus and Greece will receive aid for the most deprived
Cyprus will receive aid totalling 3.5 million euro from the European Aid to the Most Deprived for the period 2014-2020.
Greece will receive 249.3 million Euro.
The Fund supports Member State schemes providing food to the most deprived people and clothing and other essential goods to homeless people and materially-deprived children. The European Commission proposal has already been approved by the European Parliament amd the European Union`s Council of Ministers.
The Commission foresaw a budget of €2.5 billion for the Fund during the period 2014-2020 as part of its June 2011 proposal for a Multiannual Financial Framework (see IP/11/799). Member States would be responsible for paying 15% of the costs of their national programmes, with the remaining 85% coming from the Fund reports
