The EU has agreed to give the border guards the right of migrants to return to their homeland – RBC

Migrants and refugees on the border of Greece and Macedonia

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At the summit in Brussels, EU leaders agreed to give the Agency for the external borders of Frontex additional powers to expel illegal immigrants, said after the meeting the chairman of the European Council, Donald Tusk. According to him, it will happen in the coming months. Video of the press conference, Tusk placed on the website of the European Council.

«We have agreed on the overall border management, to strengthen the mandate of Frontex. In the coming months the agency will be deployed in a more operational entity. Our goal – to give Frontex the right to return illegal migrants on its own initiative and make it work to protect the external borders more active in preventing crises. At the same time the Member States will be ready to send additional hundreds of border guards to Frontex and EASO [Agency for asylum] and ensure the safety area “hot spots” in Greece and Italy, “- said Tusk told reporters after the EU summit.

In addition, the EU agreed with Turkey “action plan” on cooperation in curbing the flow of migrants to Europe. According to Reuters, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the EU is ready to “open a new chapter” of negotiations with Turkey. According to Merkel, a special agreement had been reached, but the Chancellor stressed that Turkey has already spent on refugees around € 7 billion, so the EU is worth assist Turkey in this regard.

According to Merkel, the EU intends to allocate about three billion euros to help Turkey in curbing the flow of Syrian refugees in Europe.

The European authorities expect that in 2015 Europe will come up to 1.5 million workers. Europe is faced with the biggest wave of migration since the mid-1990s. Tens of thousands of immigrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Libya and other countries by any means trying to get to Germany, the UK and some other EU states.

At the beginning of October edition of The Times reported that the leadership of the EU wants to send from Europe hundreds of thousands of migrants from countries such as Niger and Eritrea. In case of refusal to accept economic migrants back to Brussels, according to the publication, threatens the suspension of humanitarian assistance, waiver of trade and visa agreements. In addition, more than 400 thousand. Migrants who arrived in Europe in the first half of the year, will not be recognized as refugees and granted the right to asylum.