European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said that the EU leaders summit in Brussels has selected Cyprus' Christos Stylianides as the bloc's Ebola response coordinator.
The move follows the decision by the United States to appoint Ron Klain as its "Ebola czar" last week for coordinating the country's response to the deadly virus.
The European Union has also faced criticism for not putting in adequate effort to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Christos Stylianides, a trained dental surgeon, also takes charge as the EU's commissioner for humanitarian affairs and crisis management on Nov. 1, reports Reuters.
Stylianides, 56, has been a member of parliament and was spokesman for the Cypriot government during the country's financial crisis in 2012-13.
Meanwhile, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron asked EU leaders before the summit to double the EU financial aid to one billion euros.
The EU and its member states so far have given roughly 600 million euros ($760 million) to the fight against the outbreak in West Africa. It has also worked to augment its capacity for evacuating European aid workers.
EU officials said Thursday evening that the bloc had managed to allocate around €900 million Thursday for the fund, which included an additional U.K. input of €100 million.
"When we started drafting the conclusions, it sat around 600 million (euros). I think the aim is to get around 1 billion (euros) by the end of the European Council so 900 million (euros) could be quite close to the truth," said Finland's Prime Minister Alexander Stubb, reports The Wall Street Journal.
