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Slovenia + 1 other
Solidarity Fund: Commission proposes €8.6 million for Slovenian and Croat regions hit by flooding

IP/11/220

Brussels, 24 February 2011

The European Commission has today proposed to allocate €7.46 million to Slovenia and €1.17 million to Croatia from the EU Solidarity Fund, following the devastation caused by floods in September 2010. The money from the Solidarity Fund is aimed to finance emergency measures such as relief operations, cleaning up the affected areas and repair of basic infrastructure, made by national, regional and local authorities.

European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Johannes Hahn, responsible for the EU Solidarity Fund, said: "With

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Afghanistan + 7 others
Humanitarian Mine Action: The landmine threat and the response to it

The following fact sheet entitled "Humanitarian Mine Action: The Landmine Threat and the Response to It" was issued by the State Department's Office of Humanitarian Demining Programs on July 9.

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U.S. Department of State
Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
Office of Humanitarian Demining Programs
July 9, 2002

FACT SHEET

Humanitarian Mine Action: The Landmine Threat and the Response to It

(Photo of Seal that reads: So That Others May Walk the Earth in Safety, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Program)

There are more than 100 landmine and/or

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Swedish support to children in the Balkans

Unofficial translation

The Government decided today to contribute SEK 2.6 million to a new regional centre in Slovenia which will work with children in the Western Balkans. Sweden will finance a sub-project for training teachers to work with children suffering from trauma after their distressing experiences of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Yugoslavia.

The grant is part of the Government's international efforts to support children in vulnerable situations. The project is run primarily by the Slovene Philantropy organisation which