EU Intensifies Humanitarian Support, Introduces Measures to Curb Irregular Migration

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Somalilandsun – As global humanitarian needs are set to reach a historic high in 2016, the European Commission is stepping up its humanitarian budget to record levels With nearly €1.1

billion as an initial allocation making it the highest EU humanitarian budget for life-saving relief in manmade and natural disasters to date.

At the same time the European body has announced a total of 16 actions new decisions to manage migration better and address the root causes of irregular migration and forced displacement worth almost €300million to address the root causes of irregular migration.

These announcements made in two separate press statements released by the EU namely

Record EU humanitarian budget adopted for 2016 and

EU announces new decisions to manage migration better and address the root causes of irregular migration and forced displacementroot causes of irregular migration and forced displacement