{"id":249590,"date":"2025-07-09T02:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249590\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T02:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:25:10","slug":"africa-must-stop-migrants-reaching-europe-to-keep-eu-cash-plans-show-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249590\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa must stop migrants reaching Europe to keep EU cash, plans show\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the plan, the Commission suggests potentially cutting funds to poorer countries if they don\u2019t play their part in reducing migration flows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt shall combine all appropriate tools and the necessary leverage through a flexible incitative approach with, as appropriate within this context, possible changes in [the] allocation of funding related to migration,\u201d the Commission wrote in the document laying out its blueprint on foreign aid in the new budget cycle, which covers the seven years from 2028.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is yielding to pressure from her center-right European People\u2019s Party and a majority of countries spanning Italy to Denmark.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/12954005-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6879945\"  \/>This would be a big change from the EU\u2019s current aid model, which largely comes without strings attached. | Luca Zennaro\/EFE VIA EPA<\/p>\n<p>They are keen to replicate and expand the EU\u2019s controversial 2023 deal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/tunisia-hands-back-60-m-eu-funding-migration-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with Tunisia<\/a> to stem migrant departures also to other African countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncreased coherence between migration, asylum and external policies is needed to ensure that the Union\u2019s external assistance supports partner countries to manage migration more effectively,\u201d the document reads.<\/p>\n<p>However, in order for these ideas to take effect, von der Leyen will have to convince skeptics in the left-leaning Socialist and Democrats and the Greens, whose support is needed to approve the new budget in the European Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the plan, the Commission suggests potentially cutting funds to poorer countries if they don\u2019t play their part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2740,1213,521,5108,1194,365,12495,2000,299,5187,2199,839,6657,2822,5806,657,15,49,1220,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-249590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-americas","10":"tag-asia","11":"tag-asylum","12":"tag-budget","13":"tag-denmark","14":"tag-development","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-italy","19":"tag-middle-east","20":"tag-migration","21":"tag-regions-cohesion","22":"tag-tunisia","23":"tag-ukraine","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","27":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114820908612823724","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}