The European Commission’s position on the financing of ‘anti-migrant’ walls at the EU’s external borders from the EU budget, as currently requested by Austria, has “not changed”, Eric Mamer, the institution's spokesman, said on 27 January. It is still opposed to financing “walls”.
The day before, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen sent a letter to the heads of state and government, who will meet on 9 and 10 February in Brussels, to discuss, among other things,...