Cyprus a step closer to accessing EU solidarity funds for wildfires

Cyprus on Tuesday moved a step closer to being able to access over €9 million from the European Union solidarity fund to help rebuild infrastructure destroyed by the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district and killed two people last year, after the European Parliament’s budgets committee (Budg) unanimously approved funds’ disbursement.

The committee approved the allocation of €144.1m worth of funds to help three EU member states rebuild their infrastructure in the aftermath of...