According to Antonio Vargas Hernandez from the General Agency for Multilateral Cooperation (Digecoom) and Antonia Calvo, political advisor to the European Union delegation in the Dominican Republic, the European Union will make available for the Dominican Republic, EUR72 million as part of the program of non-refundable cooperation as laid down in the 11th European Development Fund (11-FED). They made the comments during a breakfast at Listin Diario yesterday, 15 July 2014.
The above-mentioned amount is in addition to the country’s share of the EUR350 million allotted to the Caribbean region, including EUR140 million for investments in the Caribbean.
The president of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy is scheduled to visit on Monday, 21 July 2014 to commemorate 25 years of relations between the EU and the Dominican Republic. The European Union spokespeople highlighted during this time European countries have contributed more than US$1 billion in cooperation.
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