Europe's €1.8bn to tackle migration crisis not enough, say Africans
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/12/migration-crisis-european-and-african-leaders-agree-18bn-trust-fund
"European leaders have offered dozens of African countries almost €2bn in return for agreeing to the deportation of unwanted migrants from Europe, in their latest attempt to get to grips with the mass movement of people that is destabilising European politics. (snip)
African leaders complained the amount of money was inadequate and “just a start”, following two days of fierce negotiations that continued for eight hours until five in the morning on Thursday. The various parties eventually agreed on a compromise package described by participants as the “lowest common denominator”.
“For the Africans the summit has been a huge opportunity to push their priorities,” said Helen Clark, the former prime minister of New Zealand who heads the UN development agency. “One of the most important points here is to push for legal migration. There’s a nod towards that. People end up in the European labour market anyway.”
Swedish delegates, according to witnesses, sounded desperate, telling the summit that their asylum system was on the brink of collapse. Sweden takes more refugees proportionately than any other country in Europe and on Thursday reintroduced border controls, the fourth country in Europe to do so. Diplomats reacted to the Swedish pleas by noting that Germany would be next to voice similar distress calls...(more)"
I don't quite understand this. The Europeans are offering 1.8 billion pounds to Africa to take back a portion of migrants and then the Africans are turning around and giving the condition that only if Europe offers legal migration? What's the point? They will all just end up back in Europe.
