On Tuesday 8 May, the national ambassadors to the EU (Coreper) failed to reach a unanimous agreement on the financing details for the second tranche of €3 billion for the Refugee Facility in Turkey (see EUROPE 12015).
“We thought that an agreement was possible”, a European source said. The member states seemed prepared to support the compromise proposal of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, taking €2 billion from the EU budget, including €700 million from a...