AMIF, the EU Fund devoted to asylum and migration issues

In a context of increasing challenges in the policy area of home affairs, the European Parliament has, on many occasions, called for an integrated EU approach to migration, asylum and external borders, endowed with sufficient resources as well as appropriate tools to handle emergency situations. The Treaty on the Functioning of the EU sets the EU’s competence in developing a common policy on asylum, immigration and external border control, based on solidarity between EU countries and fairness to non-EU nationals. In April 2014, in relation to this policy area, the EP and the Council established a specific EU funding programme dealing with asylum and migration for the 2014-20 period: the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF).

Briefing written by Alessandro D’Alfonso.

This briefing is the second in a new EPRS series, ‘How the EU budget is spent’, which aims to provide an overview of the EU’s funding programmes and their key features.

• Primary Source

ESO: Information Guide: European Migration Challenges http://www.europeansources.info/record/information-guide-european-migration-challenges/

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