{"id":177800,"date":"2025-01-23T19:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/politics\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-migration-commissioner-open-to-eu-finance-for-border-walls-and-fences\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T19:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T19:10:17","slug":"rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-migration-commissioner-open-to-eu-finance-for-border-walls-and-fences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/politics\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-migration-commissioner-open-to-eu-finance-for-border-walls-and-fences\/","title":{"rendered":"rewrite this title in Arabic Migration Commissioner open to EU finance for border walls and fences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic<br \/>\n        The Commission will &#8216;reassess needs&#8217; in the protection of borders for the next multi-annual budget, as European People&#8217;s Party joins right wing forces in asking for financement<br \/>\n    ADVERTISEMENTThe European Commissioner for Home Affairs has left the door open to\u00a0use of EU money to finance barriers at the bloc&#8217;s external borders.\u201cFollowing the trends observed in the last years, it is clear that the overall needs for border management must be reassessed as part of the preparation also of the next multiannual financial framework,\u201d Austrian Magnus Brunner\u00a0told an almost empty plenary session of Strasbourg\u2019s European Parliament on Thursday.Brunner guaranteed that the Commission will take border management needs into account \u201cin a holistic manner\u201d, whilst always ensuring proportionate measures and respect for fundamental rights.The debate came in response to an call for action\u00a0to the European Commission put forward by several MEPs from the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group.It asked\u00a0the Commission to \u201crecognise the reality on the ground at the EU\u2019s external borders\u201d and \u201csupport member states\u2019 external border barrier projects financially via the EU budget\u201d.The Commission was not able to answer within a prescribed time limit of six weeks, triggering a debate in the European Parliament under rules of procedure,\u00a0debate proponent Estonian MEP Jaak Madison told\u00a0Euronews.\u201cThe funding of border fences is in our common interest, especially when we talk about the defence questions, the fighting against illegal migration, human trafficking and terrorist threats,\u201d he said.The ECR has increasingly painted construction of walls at EU borders as a means of countering so-called \u201chybrid threats\u201d by Russia or Belarus against Finland, Sweden, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania.\u00a0\u201cIt&#8217;s pretty tough or impossible to fight against the hybrid attacks by Russia if you don&#8217;t have a physical border,\u201d Madison argued, as Russian and Belarusian authorities are accused\u00a0of encouraging and actively promoting irregular crossings at EU borders.A contentious issueThe EU currently finances mobile and stationary units, border surveillance systems and equipment, through an instrument designed to offer financial support for border management and visa policy.\u00a0Brunner noted that the Commission has recently backed this up by granting\u00a0a further \u20ac170 million to EU countries bordering Russia and Belarus.\u00a0But the EU has never permitted use of common funds to pay for border protection structures such as walls, fences or other barriers.\u00a0Member States like Poland, Hungary, Estonia and Latvia typically self fund such structures, but have called for EU funding in recent\u00a0years, with 12 countries lodging an official request\u00a0to the Commission on the issue in\u00a02021.Their demands might now be moving a step closer to being met.\u00a0Commissioner Brunner said that in the reassessment process \u201cthe views of the European Parliament are incredibly important\u201d, though political group positions on the topic are at variance.\u00a0Right wing forces are strongly in favour, with the European People\u2019s Party (EPP) more and more attracted to the idea, as attested by interventions from MEPs Kinga Koll\u00e1r (Hungary) and Riho Terras (Estonia) in today&#8217;s debate.ADVERTISEMENT\u201cI think that the red lines are changing very often,\u201d quipped ECR MEP Madison. \u201c[Ursula] von der Leyen is a pretty big opportunist. She&#8217;s following the public mindset, and how it&#8217;s changing in European governments,\u201d he said.He is convinced if Friedrich Merz wins the forthcoming election for the German Chancellery for the centre-right CDU party in Germany, he will adopt a harder line on migration than Germany currently takes in the EU Council, and wield \u201ca huge influence on the EPP\u201d in Brussels.Leftist parties oppose the idea, arguing it will not provide any benefits while endangering migrants&#8217; human rights.\u201cIt does not make any sense. If you pull up a wall, another migratory route will open. We have seen how sea patrolling policies, for example, have moved people from one route of the Mediterranean to another: when you start to block people in the central Mediterranean, the Atlantic route opens,\u201d Italian socialist MEP Cecilia Strada told Euronews.\u00a0ADVERTISEMENTThe Greens\/EFA and The Left groups are similarly minded, while the liberal Renew Europe group appears at odds over the issue.\u201cStatistics show that building walls is not useful and it\u2019s against our European DNA,\u201d French liberal MEP Fabienne Keller said during the debate.\u00a0By contrast her Lithuanian liberal counterpart Petras Au\u0161trevi\u010dius advocated for EU financing of barriers in \u201ca sense of solidarity\u201d towards Eastern EU countries.\u00a0\u201cThe countries having borders with those aggressive States simply overspent their budgets protecting other Member States,\u201d Au\u0161trevi\u010dius told Euronews in Strasbourg.\u00a0ADVERTISEMENTThe current Multiannual Financial Framework allocates \u20ac 6.7 billion for border management and visa policy within the 2021 to 2027 period.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic The Commission will &#8216;reassess needs&#8217; in the protection of borders for the next multi-annual budget, as European People&#8217;s Party joins right wing forces in asking for financement ADVERTISEMENTThe European Commissioner for Home Affairs has left the door open to\u00a0use of EU money to finance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-177800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177802,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177800\/revisions\/177802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}