BRUSSELS, September 24. / Correspondent. TASS Asya Harutyunyan, Denis Dubrovin /. EU leaders concluded at an emergency summit approved the main proposals of the European Commission (EC) to resolve the immigration crisis. To overcome it, it is ready to spend the next two years, € 9,2 billion of the Community budget. Following the meeting of Heads of State and Government of the chairman of the European Council, Donald Tusk admitted that the situation of crisis “not encouraging” and the EU should wait for influx into Europe of millions of migrant workers.
Outlook solutions
Offers of the EC include the opening to the end of November, reception centers and refugee registration at the external borders of the EU, increased security by significantly expanding the resources available to the European agency for border control “Frontex” and the Agency for coordination of police agencies – Europol.
These measures should be supported by the creation of an effective system of return of migrants who are not entitled to asylum. In addition, the EU will provide financial assistance of the Community and third countries most affected by the influx of migrants. In particular, the EU allocated € 1 billion UN agencies to help refugees from Syria, located in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, in order to ensure their basic needs on the ground so that they remained there and did not seek to continue their journey to Europe.
To discuss the quotas agreed to accept 160 thousand. Refugees summit did not come back. In general, EU leaders recognized that a lot of work, and the discussion on the crisis has only just begun – the theme of migration will dominate, and the next, already planned, the summit in October.
Budget money
“All 28 countries have agreed to strengthen assistance to Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. They will be offered more money in return for increased cooperation. At least € 1 billion will be further allocated to help refugees in the region through UN agencies,” – said Tusk.
The head of the EC, Jean-Claude Juncker announced in turn that the summit approved an increase in funding in other areas. “We have confirmed the decision to allocate € 700 million in Macedonia and agreed the allocation of € 100 million emergency assistance to the countries of the EU, € 600 million – the European Agency (” Frontex “and Europol) for 2016, € 200 million euros of the World Food Programme and 300 million euro for the provision of direct humanitarian assistance to refugees “, – he informed.
In addition, the EC said that to overcome the migration crisis, it is ready to allocate in the next two years, € 9,2 billion of unutilized funds within the existing EU budget . However, these costs are not limited to – the summit urged all communities isolated from the national budgets of the extra money to finance the solution of the refugee problem.
“We call on the EU institutions, international agencies and the Member States to accelerate work on all aspects of the migration crisis. The EC will present its proposals for the mobilization of the EU budget for this purpose. The Member States (the community) will support them with their contributions. We will return to the issue of migration at the European Council (EU summit) in October, “- said in a final statement of this meeting.
Residence permit for refugees
The centers of reception of refugees at the external borders of the European Union will take effect before the end of November. “This is a very important achievement, because a few days ago, the question of the centers seemed contradictory. Today, the discussion went well and all the leaders agreed that they should start operating by the end of November”, – he informed the head of the European Council.
This is also told reporters after meeting French President Francois Hollande. “The summit of the European Union decided to grant the EU financial assistance to no later than the end of November (at the external borders of the community) began to work registration centers and reception of refugees should also return back to those asylum can not be granted,” – he said he is.
Quotas are firm
The heads of the EU member states did not come back to discuss the issue of quotas for 160 thousand. Refugees in the next two years, said Hollande. “The allocation was resolved (September 22) by the EU Council (at the level of Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs), the summit did not come back to have a solution. No one refused to from their obligations under the reception,” – he said.
Ministers of 28 countries of the European Union adopted on 22 September a decision on the allocation of two years between the states community of 120 thousand. migrants in addition to 40 thousand. Refugees, the reception of which was agreed in July. The quotas are allocated in proportion to the population and GDP of the EU.
“France will have to take 30 thousand. Man” – said Hollande. “If there are more refugees arrive, we have to take new decisions,” – he warned.
Compromise additional quota of 120 thousand. People could not be reached, so the decision was taken on September 22, by a vote. Against him were made by the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, Finland abstained. The decision of the EU Council is a must, and even countries that voted “against” are obliged to carry it out.
Cooperation with Turkey
EU leaders will discuss the migration crisis with the Turkish authorities in Brussels and New York . “We need to work closely with Turkey on this issue. We will meet with President Tayyip Erdogan in Brussels on 5 October. In addition, I will meet with the Prime Minister (Ahmet) Davutoglu in New York” – said Tusk.
He said that to resolve the immigration crisis, the EU requires cooperation rather than safe zones proposed by Turkey. “A formal proposal of the Turkish side now – the creation of safe zones. This is not what we need, because they offer to create a 80-km safety zone with a presence in Europe and the US military control. This is a very ambitious project, but for us today the most important thing – to cooperate with our partners “, – said the head of the European Council.
On the importance of cooperation with Turkey, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “We were unanimous that it was necessary to conduct this dialogue with Turkey, since the protection of the external border of Greece with Turkey will never be achieved if Ankara would not be in this regard a partner”, – she said.
About Syria Libya
It is necessary to “take further international efforts” to stabilize the situation in Syria, which is one of the major countries – sources of migration, and Libya, which has become a key transit point for refugees from North and sub-Saharan Africa, destined for the EU .
“We call for a new international effort under the auspices of the United Nations to put an end to the war (in Syria), which has caused so much suffering and forced, by some estimates, 12 million people from their homes,” – said in the final statement.
However, there is no word on the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. At the same time, French President Francois Hollande said after the summit that Paris continues to insist on the resignation of Assad from the political arena.
As for Libya, the EU countries agreed to “make every effort to accelerate the formation there is a national unity government “.
At the final press conference, and the president of France and German Chancellor emphasized that the EU should cooperate with Russia in order to stabilize the situation in Syria.
” We have to work with all the players – Russia, Iran and the Gulf states – in order to stabilize the situation in Syria, for a new peace conference in Geneva format for the country “, – said Hollande.
” We are talking about a lot of players, they include not only The United States and Russia, but also important regional partners, “- said, in turn, Merkel. “This, for example, Iran, Saudi Arabia. We can not solve the conflict from outside, without the involvement of countries in the region”, – she said. “We have many different challenges and problems, such as the fight against the terrorist group” Islamic State “, they will be discussed in the framework of various formats,” – added Merkel.
Millions of refugees are
According to Tusk, the EU expects that millions of migrants try to reach Europe. “Our discussion today has been based on facts, not on emotions. In Syria, are now 8 million internally displaced persons, another 4 million – in the neighboring countries. We have to wait millions of refugees from one only of Syria”, – he said, stressing that there are migrants from Iraq, Afghanistan and other regions that are also seeking to enter Europe.
Tusk admitted that the situation surrounding the migration crisis “not encouraging.” “Meeting (Heads of State) was much better than we expected. However, the situation with the migration crisis today is not cause for optimism. We have started an important debate, which we will continue at the next scheduled summit in October,” – he said.
“The measures we have taken today will not be allowed to resolve the crisis, but all of them – the necessary steps in the right direction. There is a lot of work”, – said the head of the European Council.
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