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Commission’s woes unlikely to affect emergency work, EC says

    ABIDJAN
    The collective resignation of the European Commission will not affect current or future humanitarian aid programmes, according to an EU official statement sent today (Wednesday) to IRIN by the EC office in Abidjan. “The community’s executive and its representations in third countries will continue to carry out their activities as normal,” the statement said. The twenty commissioners resigned en masse yesterday (Tuesday) after a group of independent experts accused them of turning a blind eye to fraud and favouritism and of losing control of the massive bureaucracy in Brussels, news organisations reported.

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