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The Government of Flanders allocates 200,000 euros to the World Food Programme (WFP) for emergency aid in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Twenty-four regions - including Flanders - from nine different European Member States have jointly called for greater involvement in EU decision-making on post-COVID recovery.

On 30 November Minister-president Jambon and Minister Crevits travelled to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for a series of meetings with the European Investment Bank and with Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.  

On 8 December, the CERF high-level Pledging Event took place, fully digital. As in previous years, Flanders, represented by Deputy Representative Nicolas Polet, allocated an amount of 600,000 euros to the UN emergency aid fund.

On 3 December Flemish Minister for Justice and Enforcement, Environment, Energy and Tourism, Zuhal Demir, exchanged views with her Austrian colleague, Susanne Raab, Federal Minister for Integration and Women's Affairs.

From 1 December VITO, the Flemish research organisation in the area of cleantech and sustainable development, and its South African counterpart CSIR will roll out a "battery test bed" in South Africa.

On 7 December, the Committee of Ministers of the Language Union met for the 93rd time since its creation 40 years ago.

On 30 November and 1 December, Minister Bart Somers and Minister Zuhal Demir took part, on behalf of Belgium, in the Informal videoconference of European ministers responsible for Urban Matters and Territorial Cohesion.

Statistics Flanders recently launched the brochure ‘Flanders in Figures’. This publication provides a snapshot of Flanders based on a selection of key Flemish official statistics.