Macro Financial Assistance

MFA stands for Macro-Financial Assistance

MFA is being provided to support EU candidate, potential candidate and neighbourhood countries to resolve short-term balance-of-payments problems, to stabilise public finances and to encourage structural reform implementation. MFA is provided on an exceptional and temporary basis and is based on strict economic policy conditionality. MFA operations typically complement IMF adjustment programmes. MFA can be provided in the form of grants and/or loans.