Poland will give EUR 3 million in aid to Syrian war victims

Prime Minister Beata Szydło declared on Wednesday that Poland will give EUR 3 million to an international fund designed to help victims of the Syrian Civil War, TVN24 reports. Szydło made this announcement in London, ahead of the Thursday "Supporting Syria Conference", at which the UK pledged to give more than 2.3 billion GBP to the same fund. Germany likewise declared it will provide EUR 2.3 billion in aid by 2018, with with 1.2 billion coming this year. In related news, the EU announced on Wednesday that it will finance the building of a EUR  3 billion refugee facility in Turkey. For that undertaking, Poland agreed to give EUR  57 million in financial contribution.