The European Union announced it is continuing to bail out Palestinian Authority workers, including those in Gaza, but its payments for the first three months of this year already are nearly 50 percent of what was budgeted for the year.

"The EU is very much aware of the financial difficulties that the Palestinian Authority faces at this start of the year, and has already delivered more than half of its planned assistance in the first quarter of 2010,” it stated in a press release.

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