EU Commissioner for International Partnership Jutta Urpilainen says she has traveled to Zambia to announce increased budgetary allocations and enhanced cooperation because she was impressed with Zambia’s reform agenda last year. And the European Union (EU) has granted Zambia an additional €110 million to support the country’s economic sectors among them energy, education and health. She was speaking when she led commission members and a delegation of the European Parliament to pay a courtesy call on President Hakainde Hichilema and she later signed three additional support programmes for Zambia, Tuesday. Urpilainen said Zambia was the strategic partner of the European Union in the Southern African region. “Mr President, I remember very well we met in Brasils last year. I have...

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