European Union will spend billions of Euros for Asylum seekers, Migration, and Integration purposes.
The European Parliament and European Council reached an agreement over the budgetary priorities of EU asylum, migration, and integration policies over the next seven years (2021-2027).
The decision was made on Wednesday 9 December 2020 through a political agreement. The amount of distribution will be as follows:
- about 63.5% of this budget will be spent on national programs that are jointly managed by the EU.
- 36.5% will be directly managed by the EU and dedicated, among other actions, to emergency assistance, resettlement and humanitarian admission from non-EU countries, and to relocate asylum-seekers and refugees to other EU member states, “as part of solidarity efforts”.15% of these will be spent for strengthening the common asylum policy and 15% for the objective of promoting integration and regular migration.
- at least 20% of the thematic facility will be reserved for financing “and responsibility-sharing between the member states
There has been consensus on strengthening the common asylum policy as it has been an integral part of EU’s political and geographical policies over the past 5 years. Furthermore, the co-legislators also agreed that the new AMIF should contribute to developing legal migration in line with the member states’ economic and social needs, support third-country nationals to effectively integrate and be socially included, and contribute to the fight against irregular migration.
All EU member countries will be provided funds for each resettled and relocated person. This amounts to €10,000, up from the €7,000 intended by the Council. The member countries will also obtain now about €6,000 for every person they welcome under this mechanism (€8.000 if it is a vulnerable person) as they have not been given these amounts from 2014-2020 (under the humanitarian admission program).
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