{"id":5621,"date":"2020-03-24T18:18:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/?p=5621"},"modified":"2020-03-24T18:19:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:19:41","slug":"eu-to-assist-bih-with-provision-of-medical-equipment-and-mitigation-of-the-covid-19-impact-on-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/?p=5621","title":{"rendered":"EU to assist BiH with provision of medical equipment and mitigation of the COVID-19 impact on the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU Delegation to BiH posted the following\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/europa.ba\/?p=68202\" target=\"_blank\">release<\/a>\u00a0on its website:<\/p>\n<h3>EU to assist BiH with provision of medical equipment and mitigation of the COVID-19 impact on the economy<\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-text\">\n<p>23.03.2020<\/p>\n<p>The EU is considering two ways to assist BiH, including quick support in provision of up to EUR 7 million worth of medical equipment and mid-term adjustment and enforcement of EU support in the\u00a0amount of up to EUR 50 million for the economic development programmes.<\/p>\n<p>EU Ambassador to BiH Johann Sattler stated:\u00a0<em>\u201cThe\u00a0European Union has stood beside Bosnia and Herzegovina in difficult times before, as it did with the floods recovery assistance in 2014.\u00a0<\/em><em>For the urgent action, we are in contact with UNDP\/WHO on the list of priority medical equipment that could be\u00a0procured rapidly. This involves supplies to hospitals, etc. We are also preparing for releasing resources of up to \u20ac5 million for the same purpose to be available at a later stage, once BiH countersigns the IPA 2020 Financing Agreement.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0cooperation with partners, the EU is also working to adjust the ongoing and planned economic development programmes\/ projects (such as the programmes targeting businesses, agriculture, as well as small and medium-sized\u00a0enterprises) to mitigate the consequences of COVID-19 for\u00a0the BiH economy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU Delegation to BiH posted the following\u00a0release\u00a0on its website: EU to assist BiH with provision of medical equipment and mitigation of the COVID-19 impact on the economy 23.03.2020 The EU is considering two ways to assist BiH, including quick support in provision of up to EUR 7 million worth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-statements","category-featured","category-uncategorized",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5622,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions\/5622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bihdaytonproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}