President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. will ease sanctions on Syria could eventually facilitate the country’s recovery from years of civil war and transform the lives of everyday Syrians.

The European Union has lifted economic sanctions on Syria in a bid to help the war-torn country’s recovery, the 27-nation bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has said, offering the nation another critical lifeline after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad.

The European Union is preparing to lift all remaining economic sanctions against Syria, according to people familiar with the matter, pending formal approval by the bloc’s foreign ministers gathered in Brussels on Tuesday.