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The European Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO): crisis response in the grey lane Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE EUROPEAN UNION CONFLICT RESOLUTION PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY EMERGENCY RELIEF DEVELOPMENT AID HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE This briefing paper examines possible directions of the policy of the European Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO), referencing its position in the development of European Union (EU) crisis response structures and processes. Its particular focus is on how ECHO has responded to the 'grey area' dilemmas: whether and how to separate emergency humanitarian assistance from longer term development assistance, and from 'political' projects generally. Section I provides an overview of ECHO's structure and funding; Section II describes how the grey area has been addressed to date; Section III discusses how the issue arises again in the context of the development of the EU's new conflict prevention and management ambitions; while the concluding Section IV draws upon recent experience in Macedonia to support the case for a more pragmatic approach to ECHO's role. 2026-09-30T12:00:00Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33360135.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/The_European_Humanitarian_Aid_Office_ECHO_crisis_response_in_the_grey_lane/33360135 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0