Why is the EU pledging €1.2 billion to Afghanistan?

The EU has pledged €1.2 billion to Afghanistan over the next five years. But why and what does the bloc gain?

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[erketre]

The biggest problem with the EU is it's thinking that money can fix the World's biggest problems

[Brand]

0:20 Why are they specifying the percentage of women that have died here? Do they think 13% is remarkably low or do they think it's too high? If the latter, if men had died in their stead would that then have been a better result? Also, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 did not start this war. It has been going on since 1992.

[contemporiser]

Anyone from Afghanistan in the comment section?