The principal purpose of the EU emergency trust fund for Africa, financed by development aid resources, is to support sustainable economic and social progress in recipient countries, with the involvement of civil society, and not to staunch the flows of migrants and asylum seekers, MEPs stressed in Strasbourg on Tuesday 13 September.
They gave their backing to Ignazio Corrao (EFDD, Italy), rapporteur on the development and humanitarian aid implications of this“emergency trust fund for...