CAIRO (Reuters) – The European Union had disbursed a 162 million euro ($168.64 million) grant to Tunisia as a part of a program to support government reforms in areas like investment liberalization, the Tunisian economy and planning ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
The European Union also disbursed a 300 million euro ($319.74 million) loan to Tunisia in May in the first significant Western financial aid to Tunisia since President Kais Saied took control last summer.
($1 = 0.9606 euros)
(Reporting by Alaa Swilam; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel)
