{"id":148710,"date":"2018-01-25T03:51:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T08:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=148710"},"modified":"2018-01-25T03:51:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T08:51:01","slug":"eu-confirms-ph-rejection-of-p382m-eu-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/25\/eu-confirms-ph-rejection-of-p382m-eu-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"EU confirms PH rejection of P382M EU aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_148788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148788\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/23905391_1350975991692087_4214398338498758467_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148788\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/23905391_1350975991692087_4214398338498758467_n.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: European Union (EU) Ambassador to the Philippines Franz Jessen (Photo:  European Union in the Philippines\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/23905391_1350975991692087_4214398338498758467_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/23905391_1350975991692087_4214398338498758467_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/23905391_1350975991692087_4214398338498758467_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: European Union (EU) Ambassador to the Philippines Franz Jessen (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EUDelegationToThePhilippines\/photos\/a.392357730887256.1073741838.196789723777392\/1350975991692087\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EUDelegationToThePhilippines\" target=\"_blank\">European Union in the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>European Union (EU) Ambassador to the Philippines Franz Jessen was saddened to confirm on Wednesday that the Philippines formally rejected the trade-related fund worth P382 million or 6.1 million euros of donation.<\/p>\n<p>This supposed fund was supposed to be under the 300-million-euro-worth EU-Philippine Trade Related Technical Assistance (TRTA) in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, it is a bit sad that after 30 years plus of development cooperation, we suddenly get into this situation,\u201d Jessen told the media in the Kapihan sa\u00a0 Manila Bay news forum.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was formalized in the sense that we have, for example in the TRTA, a document that actually had to be signed by the end of the year. And that has been returned to us unsigned,\u201d the ambassador explained.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from this, the government will also be rejecting another P2.4 billion or 39 million euros worth of assistance fund for sustainable energy projects.<\/p>\n<p>The administration has expressed disappointment when the EU called for an investigation on the killings related to the President\u2019s campaign to eradicate illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte in October accused the EU of not respecting the country\u2019s sovereignty, and declared his rejection of any aid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m cursing them [the EU] because they do not know how to respect sovereignty,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need aid but if it\u2019s like that, you are taught how to do it \u2026 that\u2019s pedantry,\u201d Duterte\u00a0added while fuming.<\/p>\n<p>It was also in October when Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano called the aid package as an \u2018excuse\u2019 to criticize the President and his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of these strains in the relationship of the Philippines and the EU, Jessen said that they respect the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe respect the decision. It is important for us that we don\u2019t have misunderstanding. It\u2019s at the end of the day, for them to decide,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union (EU) Ambassador to the Philippines Franz Jessen was saddened to confirm on Wednesday that the Philippines formally rejected &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":148788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[3374,3103,21683,2444],"class_list":["post-148710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-alan-peter-cayetano","tag-european-union","tag-franz-jessen","tag-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}