EU extends EUR 9M to Austria Hungary to cope with migrant crisis
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) The European Commission said on Tuesday it has allocated EUR 4M in emergency assistance toHungaryto help the country cope with the increasedmigrant influxacross its border with Serbia.
The funding extended under the under the EU’sAsylum Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) will be used to improve the infrastructure of existing reception facilities as well as develop new ones to buy additional equipment and supplies for reception centres as well as to expand human resources and increase transport capacities in Hungary.
The allocation comes afterAustriaon Monday received EUR 5M extended under the AMIF to increase the reception capacity for 1270 newly arrivedasylumseekers as well as to increase the administrative capacity to process an increased number ofasylumclaims the EU Commission said on its website.
"Therefugeecrisis… is knocking on the door of one EU member state after the other” the EU Commissioner for Migration Home Affairs and Citizenship DimitrisAvramopoulos commented in Vienna on Monday.
“We can only overcome thiscrisisif we act as a true Union; if we act with responsibility and solidarity."
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