The G7 leaders have recognized the flow of migrants into Europe as a global challenge, committing to provide more assistance to meet the needs of refugees and their host nations.
ISE-SHIMA (Japan), (Sputnik) – Earlier this week, First Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans announced that the European Union would spend over 10 billion euros ($11 billion) in 2015-2016 to solve the current migrant crisis.
A massive refugee crisis is currently raging in Europe, with hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants fleeing their crisis-torn countries of origin in the Middle East and Africa to escape violence and poverty. More than 1.8 million of them arrived in the European Union in 2015, according to the EU border agency Frontex.
In September 2015, the European Commission announced a quota scheme, providing for the resettlement of 160,000 refugees currently located in Greece, Italy and Hungary, throughout other European member states over the next two years.
