The budget committee of the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday rejected a proposal to cut aid to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in 2020.
Anna Foutja, a member of the European Parliament, Christian Democrat, has proposed a € 100 million aid package to be sent to UNRWA by the European Union in 2020 following mismanagement. "The Jewish lobby is putting great pressure to extract a European decision like the one they extracted from the US administration. They are using pretexts for demand to cut aid, and they say there is mismanagement for them," Ambassador Adel Attia, deputy head of the Palestinian mission in Brussels, told Voice of Palestine radio. To UNRWA. "
