In a new report published on Wednesday 25 September, the European Court of Auditors found that the EU’s €5 billion Emergency Trust Fund (EUTF) for Africa, which will cease operations in 2025, is “not sufficiently focused on the priorities of addressing the root causes of instability, irregular migration and displacement on the African continent”. And the Commission was unable to learn any lessons from this.
The auditors had already called in 2018 for EUTF support to be better...