EU Budget Challenged by the Present Migration and Refugee Crises
EU Budget Challenged by the Present Migration and Refugee Crises

External Dimension of Actions

Summary/Abstract: The present migration and refugee crises in Europe required not onlyoperational and legal EU responses but also budgetary ones. Additionally,the EU has resorted to use funds allocated to external action for migration purposes much more extensively than ever. This has turned the authors’ attention to the external dimension of the EU migration and asylum budget. In a spirit of emergency accompanied with the urgent searchfor flexibility the following budgetary measures on the external side wereproposed: two trust funds: the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa and Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis along with the EU Facility for Refugees in Turkey. These actions had serious budgetary consequences since they resulted in establishment of new financial solutions and hence caused budget reorganisation, refocus and reprioritisation. The new external developments have not only introduced cash pooling but also diminished the role of the European Parliament at the expense of the European Commission’s one. Such an approach may have far-reachingconsequences for the EU as it conveys new flexibility, limits the role of the long-term programming and redefines the relationship between the EU and third countries.

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