The Budgets Committee (BUDG) vote to mobilise 100 million euros in EU aid to support refugees and host communities in Jordan and Lebanon as well as 485 million euros to ensure that urgent humanitarian support continues for refugees in Turkey, in the European Parliament in Brussels.

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EU - Lebanon (T)

EU - Türkiye (T)

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situation of Syrian refugees (T)

HOHLMEIER, Monika (EPP, DE)

EU - Jordan (T)

Continuation of the support to refugees and host communities in response to the Syria crisis in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey: extracts from the report by Monika HOHLMEIER (EPP, DE)

Atmosphere in the meeting room , views during the debate (7 shots) 

SOUNDBITE (English), Monika HOHLMEIER (EPP, DE), So the proposal of the Commission for the draft amending budget in favor of Syrian refugees is supported by the Parliament, is supported by the committee of budgets. The reason is that there are 1.7 million refugees and explicitly children, refugees, and they need to have a schooling. So if the European Union would not afford 585 million, we wouldn't be able to give schooling to the children of the refugees, Syrian refugees. And this could cause a major problem.

SOUNDBITE (English), Monika HOHLMEIER (EPP, DE), Secondly, the COVID crisis has arrived in the refugee camps either and is concerning Syrian refugees. And so we would like to strengthen the health systems, the sanitation system, to take care of higieninc measures to provide medical help and medicaments for refugees the same. We want to support that the waste organization will be better in in in these camps. So for these reasons, we are providing 585 millions. And the European Parliament will support this very urgent procedure because the schooling is starting in September and UNICEF and Red Cross need to have a very clear financing of the schooling of the children.

SOUNDBITE (English), Monika HOHLMEIER (EPP, DE), We have very strong controls and UNICEF and Red Cross are delivering reports so we can be sure that the money is really going to the refugees and is not going to governmental structures or is disappearing in the sense of a desert... So we are very, very safe. I have spoken myself with the UN about this program and I are in the CONT committee, so the Committee for Budgetary Control. We have very good reports about this support for refugee, explicitly refugee children and explicitly for female children. So for girls, because girls really need a support in these refugee camps, because they are in a very bad situation in these camps.