EU Approves $450 Million More for Refugee Crisis

  08 October 2015    Read: 1108
 EU Approves $450 Million More for Refugee Crisis
The European Union has earmarked more than 400 million euros ($451 million) in additional funding to tackle the refugee emergency.
Most of the money — 300 million euros — will be used to help Syrian refugees in countries outside the EU, including Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.

It will also fund the creation of 120 jobs in the three key European agencies working on the migration frontline; the Frontex border agency, the EASO asylum support office and the policy agency Europol.

Some 56 million euros will be devoted to humanitarian aid.

Police in southern Sweden say they have removed an illegal tent camp that stateless Palestinians set up in early August outside the Swedish Immigration Agency to protest against the rejection of their asylum applications.

Ewa-Gun Westford, police spokeswoman in Malmo, says the protesters are welcome to stay but their tents have been removed.

She said Thursday`s action came after Sweden`s third- largest city on Sept. 22 banned the camp housing some 100 people on public property.

Westford said three people were arrested for violence against civil servants and refusing to obey police orders. It was not immediately clear whether they would be charged.

France is proposing to beef up the European Union`s external borders by committing member states to contribute more personnel to the EU`s border agency and eventually setting up a largely autonomous international "corps" that could intervene wherever a crisis appears.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve made the proposal to his EU counterparts at Thursday`s meeting in Luxembourg. French officials said it would be developed by EU leaders at next week`s summit.

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