Avramopoulos: EU Ready To Give Further Help To Hungary
- 1 Sep 2015 3:50 AM
The European Union is prepared to set up so-called hot spots in Hungary to help speed up asylum procedures, the EU’s migration affairs commissioner said, adding that Hungary will receive 185 million euros in EU funding to handle its migration crisis. EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos said in Calais that Hungary had asked for an extra 8 million euros and a decision on this would be forthcoming.
Hot spots are due to begin operating in Italy and Greece, the so-called frontline countries, where administrators will be processing asylum requests to determine whether asylum-seekers are eligible for refugee status.
The hot spot administrators will arrange for migrants who cannot be given refugee status to be sent back to their countries of origin.
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