In the run up to the European Council on 15 October the Commission presented a statement today in which it shall report on the implementation of the priority measures of the European migration agenda.
President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker said: “European leaders have three weeks flocked ago to agree on a concrete catalog of measures with which we should take urgent. The Commission has already fulfilled its promises.
We need more money allocated to the refugee crisis – and our budget has been modified by both co-legislators approved. We have sent experts to Greece and Italy to the hotspotsen relocation arrangements to launch and we have urged all member states insisted that they are correctly implementing the EU’s common asylum rules.
There are now concrete results, but Member States must do more. Noble words must be followed up at home in the form of concrete measures. “
- Member States need to quickly respond to requests for national experts put on the hotspots to inform the Commission about their capacity and establish a national focal point to coordinate the relocation in Greece and Italy and the national resettlement activities.
- Many Member States have yet to offer their own equivalent funding to support the UNHCR, the World Food Programme and other relevant organizations (500 million euros), the regional trust fund from the EU to Syria (500 million euros) and the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (1.8 billion euro).
- Member States should also ensure the correct implementation of EU legislation. The Commission has not yet received an answer to the 40 written warnings at the September sent to the States on potential or actual breaches of EU asylum legislation (in addition to the 34 cases that were already pending at September 23).
