Tunisia free to reject requested EU funds - Varhelyi

(see related stories) (ANSA) - ROME, OCT 5 - Tunisia "formally asked" the European Union for 60 million euros in aid and is free to return it if chooses, said European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi on X on Thursday.
    The commissioner added that the disbursement is not linked to the EU-Tunisia memorandum of understanding signed in July but concerns budget support measures taken since 2021.
    On Monday Tunisian President Kais Saied said the country would not accept "charity" funds on grounds they "contradict the memorandum of understanding signed in Tunis in the spirit that prevailed at the Rome conference last July". (ANSA).