Without unanimous agreement on the modalities for financing the second instalment of €3 billion allocated to the Facility for Refugees in Turkey, the member states could decide to mobilise €500 million from the EU budget for the expenditure incurred in 2018.
During the meeting of national ambassadors to the EU (Coreper) on Thursday 7 June, Italy was again unable to give its approval or to say when a decision would be taken in Rome. It wanted a timetable for the payment of national...