EU finance ministers have adopted a decision granting up to 300 million euro in loans to Tunisia to support its economic stabilisation and reforms and to cover its balance of payments needs. The ministers who met in Brussels Tuesday in a statement last night said the macro-financial assistance will be made available for a period of two and a half years, starting from the first day after the entry into force of a memorandum of understanding to be agreed between Tunisia and the EU. It will have a maximum maturity of 15 years, it added.