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Budgetary measures for the refugee crisis

Summary

The European Parliament approves an amending budget to provide immediate funding and staff for managing the refugee and migrant crisis, including reinforcing asylum funds and increasing agency personnel.
10 04.12.2015
Other
budget
human rights
social policy
european union
public administration

Key points

  • Reinforcement of emergency assistance for asylum and internal security through a 100 million euro increase.
  • Creation of 120 new staff positions to support EU agencies, specifically distributed among Frontex (60), EASO (30), and Europol (30).
  • Allocation of 300 million euros to the European Neighbourhood Instrument to support external relations.
  • Increase in humanitarian aid funding by approximately 55.7 million euros through budget redeployment.
Documents (PDFs)
REPORT on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 7/2015 of the European Union for the financial year 2015, Managing the refugee crisis: immediate budgetary measures under the European Agenda on Migration Draft amending budget No 7/2015: Managing the refugee crisis: immediate budgetary measures under the European Agenda on Migration
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