BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union broke a political deadlock Monday and extended for two years a 500 million euro ($680 million) food program that benefits 18 million of its poorest citizens.
Without such an agreement, the program would have ended Jan. 1.
Six nations had blocked the funding extension, with many saying the program should be funded by individual nations, not from EU coffers. But Germany relented because scrapping the program would have exposed the poorest at too short notice, and other nations agreed.
 
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