Aid

In order to prevent the chaos in the aid to quake zone, which has come to mind with the sights of clothes thrown on the streets, the parliamentary earthquake commission has suggested switching to the barcode system, which enables the classification and tracking of aid.

The ruling Social Democratic Party in Romania supports a ban on the import of Ukrainian grain to be introduced in Bulgaria's northern neighbor. This has already been done by Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, with only Bratislava allowing transit. Bulgaria is also considering a ban.

The international community has collected slightly more than 6 billion euros for Türkiye and around 1 billion euros for Syria in a major donors' conference organized by the European Union to assist the victims of the Feb. 6 earthquakes and the reconstruction of 11 Turkish provinces.
 

Ads costing $3.6 million have sought aid for Ukraine from seven countries of the Western Balkans since Russia's invasion a year ago, a BIRN analysis shows.

Tired of mounting debt and multiple crises, leaders of the world's poorest countries have called for a rewrite of the rules governing the granting of billions of dollars.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has accused the world's rich nations and energy giants of squeezing poor countries with "predatory" interest rates and "crushing" fuel prices. Speaking to leaders of more than 40 countries in need, at a conference in Doha, Guterres said rich nations should provide $500 billion a year in aid:

The European Union is poised to turn on its subsidies tap again, this time to counter U.S. clean energy aid, after already doling out billions in the last three years to businesses hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent war in Ukraine.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put Bulgarian agriculture in front of serious challenges due to the unprecedented increase in the price of basic production resources - energy, fertilizers, feed, uncertainty in the agricultural markets, and the crisis has further worsened the traditional low liquidity of small farms in our country.

Just like the services we offer in a wide range of areas extending from education to healthcare and transportation to energy, we also have the fastest and most effective system of intervention in disasters in the world, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said no Jan. 7 at the opening ceremony of multiple facilities in Antalya.

Slovenia has been a major donor to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s invasion and has recently donated ambulances and power equipment as part of a deliberate shift from military to non-military aid.