EU Syria Trust Fund: new assistance package to support Syrian refugees and host communities crosses €1 billion mark

On 20 June 2017 the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis adopted new projects totalling €275 million. These projects supported refugees and their overstretched host communities in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, the Western Balkans, and Armenia.

Projects focused on education, health care, support of local community, social inclusion, gender equality. The newly adopted assistance package brings the current overall volume of the EU Trust Fund up to over €1 billion which was the goal set by President Juncker on 23 September 2015 at the Informal meeting of the European Council on migration and in the Communication on Managing the Refugee Crisis.