EU intends to increase financial support to the Palestinian Authority with a value of €1.6 billion.

The European Union intends to increase financial support to the Palestinian Authority with a package of about 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) over three years, the European Commissioner for Middle East Affairs told Reuters in an interview.

Dubravka Suica, the EU's commissioner for the Mediterranean, said that financial support would go hand in hand with reforms by the Palestinian Authority, which faces accusations of corruption and mismanagement from its critics.